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Basic bootie; better if you get a good deal and add an insole
These boots were about what I expected after reading other reviews. Very basic. No lining or any comfort material inside. They do their job, which is keep my feet dry when I'm doing errands on a wet day. I purchased shearling insoles to put in them, which make them much more comfortable except the boots run big so the insoles are a bit small.
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This paper considers a discrete-time single-server queue with a single
acceptance period for a Poissonian population of homogeneous customers.
Customers are served on a first-come first-served (FCFS) basis, and their
service times are independent and identically distributed with a general
distribution. We assume that each customer chooses her/his arrival-time slot
with the goal of minimizing her/his expected waiting time in competition with
other customers. For this queueing game, we derive a symmetric (mixed-strategy)
Nash equilibrium; that is, an equilibrium arrival-time distribution of
homogeneous customers, where their expected waiting times are identical. We
also propose an agent-based model, which simulates the dynamics of customers
who try to minimize their waiting times for service. Through numerical
experiments, we confirm that this agent-based model achieves, in steady state,
an arrival-time distribution similar to the equilibrium arrival-time
distribution analytically obtained.
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In this paper, we employ the lattice Boltzmann method to solve the Boltzmann
equation with the Shakhov model for the collision integral in the context of
the 3D planar Couette flow. The half-range Gauss-Hermite quadrature is used to
account for the wall-induced discontinuity in the distribution function. The
lattice Boltzmann simulation results are compared with direct simulation Monte
Carlo (DSMC) results for ${}^3{\rm He}$ and ${}^4{\rm He}$ atoms interacting
via ab initio potentials, at various values of the rarefaction parameter
$\delta$, where the temperature of the plates varies from $1\ {\rm K}$ up to
$3000\ {\rm K}$. Good agreement is observed between the results obtained using
the Shakhov model and the DSMC data at large values of the rarefaction
parameter. The agreement deteriorates as the rarefaction parameter is
decreased, however we highlight that the relative errors in the non-diagonal
component of the shear stress do not exceed $2.5\%$.
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We give a framework for combining $n$ monads on the same category via
distributive laws satisfying Yang-Baxter equations, extending the classical
result of Barr and Wells which combines two monads via one distributive law. We
show that this corresponds to iterating $n$-times the process of taking the
2-category of monads in a 2-category, extending the result of Street
characterising distributive laws. We show that this framework can be used to
construct the free strict $n$-category monad on $n$-dimensional globular sets;
we first construct for each $i$ a monad for composition along bounding
$i$-cells, and then we show that the interchange laws define distributive laws
between these monads, satisfying the necessary Yang-Baxter equations.
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From the subsubleading chiral three-nucleon force [intermediate-range
contributions, published in Phys. Rev. C\,87, 054007 (2013)] a
density-dependent NN-interaction $V_\text{med}$ is derived in isospin-symmetric
nuclear matter. Following the division of the pertinent 3N-diagrams into
two-pion-one-pion exchange topology and ring topology, one evaluates for these
all selfclosings and concatenations of nucleon-lines to an in-medium loop. In
the case of the $2\pi 1\pi$-exchange topology, the momentum- and
$k_f$-dependent potentials associated with the isospin-operators ($1$ and
$\vec\tau_1 \!\cdot\! \vec\tau_2$) and five independent spin-structures require
at most one numerical integration. For the more challenging (concatenations of
the) ring diagrams proportional to $c_{1,2,3,4}$, one ends up with regularized
double-integrals $\int_0^\lambda dr\,r \int_0^{\pi/2} d\psi$ from which the
$\lambda^2$-divergence has been subtracted and the logarithmic piece $\sim \ln
(m_\pi/\lambda)$ is isolated. The derived semi-analytical results are most
helpful to implement the subsubleading chiral 3N-forces into nuclear many-body
calculations.
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Since the creation of Bitcoin in 2009 we have seen a great push towards
public and private blockchains. In order to avoid fragmentation, a global
network connecting all these blockchains is envisioned. Just like the Internet
facilitates communication and the transfer of information, we propose a system,
similar in size and reach for payments and transactions: A
cryptographically-secure off-chain multi-asset instant transaction network
(COMIT) can connect and exchange any asset on any blockchain to any other
blockchain using a cross-chain routing protocol (CRP). COMIT is a super
blockchain network that allows for instant transactions which are enforced
using off-chain smart contracts. It leverages Payment Channels and Hashed
Timelock Contracts (HTLC) across chains to solve the problem of double spending
attacks without requiring a settlement onto the underlying blockchains. COMIT's
connectivity is provided by Liquidity Providers (LP), who operate on one or
more blockchains, acting as payment hubs and nodes on a single chain and market
makers in a decentralized network for cross-chain asset conversions. This paper
lays out how COMIT works, the benefits for Users, Liquidity Providers and
Businesses; and how this does not only accelerate the adoption of blockchain
technology, but furthermore allows for an integration with the traditional
banking system.
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Not all cartridges work.....
Not all the ink cartridges would work. When put in the printer would not recognize them so I had to put in a different one and fortunately that one worked. I have 2 black ones that won't work which means I am out that money and more importantly short of ink. I guess I will have to purchase elsewhere where I can't rely on all the cartridges working that were purchased.
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We reconsider the issue of superluminal propagation in the DGP model of
infrared modified gravity. Superluminality was argued to exist in certain
otherwise physical backgrounds by using a particular, physically relevant
scaling limit of the theory. In this paper, we exhibit explicit
five-dimensional solutions of the full theory that are stable against small
fluctuations and that indeed support superluminal excitations. The scaling
limit is neither needed nor invoked in deriving the solutions or in the
analysis of its small fluctuations. To be certain that the superluminality
found here is physical, we analyze the retarded Green's function of the scalar
excitations, finding that it is causal and stable, but has support on a widened
light-cone. We propose to use absence of superluminal propagation as a method
to constrain the parameters of the DGP model. As a first application of the
method, we find that whenever the 4D energy density is a pure cosmological
constant and a hierarchy of scales exists between the 4D and 5D Planck masses,
superluminal propagation unavoidably occurs.
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Seems translated Poorly
This book was translated very poorly into English. There are many misspellings and formatting issues throughout the book. I can't believe this made it through to publication in what seems like an early draft of the composition. The content is also very repetitive. So bad I almost emailed the author to let her know.
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In this work we investigate a preferential attachment model whose parameter
is a function $f:\mathbb{N}\to[0,1]$ that drives the asymptotic proportion
between the numbers of vertices and edges of the graph. We investigate
topological features of the graphs, proving general bounds for the diameter and
the clique number. Our results regarding the diameter are sharp when $f$ is a
regularly varying function at infinity with strictly negative index of regular
variation $-\gamma$. For this particular class, we prove a characterization for
the diameter that depends only on $-\gamma$. More specifically, we prove that
the diameter of such graphs is of order $1/\gamma$ with high probability,
although its vertex set order goes to infinity polynomially. Sharp results for
the diameter for a wide class of slowly varying functions are also obtained.
The almost sure convergence for the properly normalized logarithm of the clique
number of the graphs generated by slowly varying functions is also proved.
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In this work we study a two-band model of a superconductor in a square
lattice. One band is narrow in energy and includes local Coulomb correlations
between its quasi-particles. Pairing occurs in this band due to nearest
neighbor attractive interactions. Extended s-wave, as well as d-wave symmetries
of the superconducting order parameter are considered. The correlated electrons
hybridize with those in another, wide conduction band through a k-dependent
mixing, with even or odd parity depending on the nature of the orbitals. The
many-body problem is treated within a slave-boson approach that has proved
adequate to deal with the strong electronic correlations that are assumed here.
Since applied pressure changes mostly the ratio between hybridization and
bandwidths, we can use this ratio as a control parameter to obtain the phase
diagrams of the model. We find that for a wide range of parameters, the
critical temperature increases as a function of hybridization (pressure), with
a region of first-order transitions. When frustration is introduced it gives
rise to a stable superconducting phase. We find that superconductivity can be
suppressed for specific values of band-filling due to the Coulomb repulsion. We
show how pressure, composition and strength of correlations affect the
superconductivity for different symmetries of the order parameter and the
hybridization.
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We'd like to share a simple tweak of Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD)
family of detectors, which is effective in reducing model size while
maintaining the same quality. We share box predictors across all scales, and
replace convolution between scales with max pooling. This has two advantages
over vanilla SSD: (1) it avoids score miscalibration across scales; (2) the
shared predictor sees the training data over all scales. Since we reduce the
number of predictors to one, and trim all convolutions between them, model size
is significantly smaller. We empirically show that these changes do not hurt
model quality compared to vanilla SSD.
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Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) is a single-photon detector designed for extremely
low light imaging conditions. Majority of the existing QIS prototypes are
monochrome based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD). Passive color
imaging has not been demonstrated with single-photon detectors due to the
intrinsic difficulty of shrinking the pixel size and increasing the spatial
resolution while maintaining acceptable intra-pixel cross-talk. In this paper,
we present image reconstruction of the first color QIS with a resolution of
$1024 \times 1024$ pixels, supporting both single-bit and multi-bit photon
counting capability. Our color image reconstruction is enabled by a customized
joint demosaicing-denoising algorithm, leveraging truncated Poisson statistics
and variance stabilizing transforms. Experimental results of the new sensor and
algorithm demonstrate superior color imaging performance for very low-light
conditions with a mean exposure of as low as a few photons per pixel in both
real and simulated images.
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We define the notion of an exceptional manifold to be a flat Riemannian
manifold with boundary which supports a positive harmonic function satisfying
simultaneously a zero Dirichlet condition and a constant (nonzero) Neumann
condtion at the boundary. We study the two-dimensional case: we present various
examples and give a general construction algorithm of such surface by using
complex analysis. We deduce a classification of all such surfaces assuming some
further natural hypotheses and prove a Bernstein type theorem.
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A statistical analysis of the prime numbers indicates possible traces of
quantum chaos. We have computed the nearest neighbor spacing distribution,
number variance, skewness, and excess for sequences of the first N primes for
various values of N. All four statistical measures clearly show a transition
from random matrix statistics at small N toward Poisson statistics at large N.
In addition, the number variance saturates at large lengths as is common for
eigenvalue sequences. This data can be given a physical interpretation if the
primes are thought of as eigenvalues of a quantum system whose classical
dynamics is chaotic at low energy but regular at high energy. We discuss some
difficulties with this interpretation in an attempt to clarify what kind of
physical system might have the primes as its quantum eigenvalues.
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Mapping and localization is a critical module of autonomous driving, and
significant achievements have been reached in this field. Beyond Global
Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), research in point cloud registration,
visual feature matching, and inertia navigation has greatly enhanced the
accuracy and robustness of mapping and localization in different scenarios.
However, highly urbanized scenes are still challenging: LIDAR- and camera-based
methods perform poorly with numerous dynamic objects; the GNSS-based solutions
experience signal loss and multipath problems; the inertia measurement units
(IMU) suffer from drifting. Unfortunately, current public datasets either do
not adequately address this urban challenge or do not provide enough sensor
information related to mapping and localization. Here we present UrbanLoco: a
mapping/localization dataset collected in highly-urbanized environments with a
full sensor-suite. The dataset includes 13 trajectories collected in San
Francisco and Hong Kong, covering a total length of over 40 kilometers. Our
dataset includes a wide variety of urban terrains: urban canyons, bridges,
tunnels, sharp turns, etc. More importantly, our dataset includes information
from LIDAR, cameras, IMU, and GNSS receivers. Now the dataset is publicly
available through the link in the footnote. Dataset Link:
https://advdataset2019.wixsite.com/urbanloco.
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Well there's a few things about this movie. Everyone should see it. You see the nation of Iraq like you've never seen it covered by the media, and shot from a perspective that is hardly considered by most Americans, where the movie has its main audience. However all that glorious stuff in mind lets take a look at a few other facts of the movie. There were 150 cameras handed out to the Iraqi people most all of which view the war and subjugation of the occupying forces as a growing pain for the bettering of their nation. And in comparison to Saddam it is simply a feeble scratching at the skin. Also, Netflix as its main distributor advertised it before the fun election we just had by sending out a mass e-mail to its entire roster to see the film. Many of the, what should be labeled as opinions played out as facts listed off by the interviewed Iraqis are wrong. If one is to review the Red Cross' records of Abu Ghraib tortures it wasn't Saddam's henchmen who were being tortured it was a fine mix of a 80-90% innocent civilians and 10-20% rightfully detained people. Never was it disclosed that any of that 10-20% were Saddam's Henchmen or curfew violators. In addition the Arab world really has never listed 'Democracy' as one of their opponents, more correctly it is the USA's 6 Billion Dollars a year to Isreal, our military bases in Saudi Arabia and our interest in Oil. I agree that the media is a complete distortion, but this film shows that same distortion. I'm afraid that the Iraqi people that this film represents have been edited to speak with a Yankee voice. Yes its true that Saddam is a puke, and that his removal many see for the best. Its true that some Iraqis actually get paid a good wage. Just as its true that no Iraqi people have control of their most prized oil and US corporations do. Nor does it mention that 20,000 civilians have died due exclusively to US artillery. Still 15% of the country which once had running water and electiricity now does not. Nor does it mention that from 1993-2003 UN sanctions purposed and authored by the USA Government killed over 200,000 Iraqi civilians. Nor does it mention that Democracy in when people decide the government, not a massive war machine that sends the message, 'Be killed or Obey'. I am afraid that the cutting room floor must have quite a bit of Iraqis that aren't so happy with the Occupation. Just as the vast majority of the world was not for the war. In fact the America, Britian, Spain and the rest of them are not carriers of Democracy, they turned their back to it when they saw how full their pockets could be. Hurray, Saddam is out of power, but I'm afraid that no Iraqi is yet in power. Corporations are in power, the media is in power. Read, do your own research, and don't let them blindfold you.
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K_s-band images of 20 barred galaxies show an increase in the peak amplitude
of the normalized m=2 Fourier component with the R_25-normalized radius at this
peak. This implies that longer bars have higher $m=2$ amplitudes. The long bars
also correlate with an increased density in the central parts of the disks, as
measured by the luminosity inside 0.25R_25 divided by the cube of this radius
in kpc. Because denser galaxies evolve faster, these correlations suggest that
bars grow in length and amplitude over a Hubble time with the fastest evolution
occurring in the densest galaxies. All but three of the sample have early-type
flat bars; there is no clear correlation between the correlated quantities and
the Hubble type.
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Any finite set of linear operators on an algebra $A$ yields an operator
algebra $B$ and a module structure on A, whose endomorphism ring is isomorphic
to a subring $A^B$ of certain invariant elements of $A$. We show that if $A$ is
a critically compressible left $B$-module, then the dimension of its
self-injective hull $A$ over the ring of fractions of $A^B$ is bounded by the
uniform dimension of $A$ and the number of linear operators generating $B$.
This extends a known result on irreducible Hopf actions and applies in
particular to weak Hopf action. Furthermore we prove necessary and sufficient
conditions for an algebra A to be critically compressible in the case of group
actions, group gradings and Lie actions.
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Although the Saha ionization equation is a standard topic in advanced
statistical physics and most professional physicists would have some knowledge
of it, the exact nature of Meghnad Saha's contributions in this subject is not
widely known. Based on an analysis of Saha's original papers and other relevant
papers by contemporary scientists, as well as other source materials such as
letters exchanged between scientists, I discuss how Saha used the theory of
thermal ionization to solve some of the most important astrophysics problems of
that era.
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The Dark Souls Encyclopedia/Reference Bible
I got this thinking that it was a strategy guide for all three games. It is only a reference book to all three but the maps alone are worth getting it for. The maps show: items, bonfires, NPS, bosses, and more. I'm so happy never accidentally run into a boss that I'm not prepared for again. If you're like me and have to look on the internet every 5 minutes for where something or someone is then this is a book for you. I only wish that the pages that showed the weapons, armor, and spells pages showed stats. Otherwise, it would be perfect. Since I pre-ordered it I got $20 discount which always makes things better for this heavy well built book. I also like the slip cover, book mark ribbon, and the art photos. Praise the sun!
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We introduce a notion of depth three tower of three rings C < B < A with
depth two ring extension A | B recovered when B = C. If A = \End B_C and B | C
is a Frobenius extension, this captures the notion of depth three for a
Frobenius extension in arXiv:math/0107064 and arXiv:math/0108067, such that if
B | C is depth three, then A | C is depth two (a phenomenon of finite depth
subfactors, see arXiv:math/0006057). We provide a similar definition of finite
depth Frobenius extension with embedding theorem utilizing a depth three
subtower of the Jones tower. If A, B and C correspond to a tower of subgroups G
> H > K via the group algebra over a fixed base ring, the depth three condition
is the condition that subgroup K has normal closure K^G contained in H. For a
depth three tower of rings, there is a pre-Galois theory for the ring \End
{}_BA_C and coring (A \o_B A)^C involving Morita context bimodules and left
coideal subrings. This is applied in two sections to a specialization of a
Jacobson-Bourbaki correspondence theorem for augmented rings to depth two
extensions with depth three intermediate division rings.
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Several pulsars show sudden cessation of pulsed emission, which is known as
nulling. The number of known nulling pulsars has not been significantly
enhanced in the last decade, although the pulsar population has more than
doubled following the Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey. A systematic follow-up
study of the new pulsars, discovered in this survey, is being carried out by us
at 325-MHz with GMRT. The peculiar nulling behaviour of PSR J1738-2330,
observed as a part of this 325-MHz GMRT survey, is reported in this paper. The
pulsar appears to show a periodic null-burst cycle with an upper limit to
nulling fraction, of about 90 percent. The pulsed flux density declines by a
factor 94 during the nulled pulses in this pulsar.
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The figure is in good condition, the box, not so much.
It’s as advertised. I just had to knock some stars off because my box came pretty beat up. It was a birthday gift for a good friend and having to wrap this up in a beat up box is going to make it look kind of second hand.
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Clinical evidence indicates that patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) often show differential outcomes of comorbid conditions in relation to the lateralization of the seizure focus. A particularly strong relationship exists between the side of seizure focus and the propensity for distinct reproductive endocrine comorbidities in women with TLE. Therefore, here we evaluated whether targeting of left or right dorsal hippocampus for intrahippocampal kainic acid (IHKA) injection, a model of TLE, produces different outcomes in hippocampal granule cell dispersion, body weight gain, and multiple measures of reproductive endocrine dysfunction in female mice. One, two, and four months after IHKA or saline injection, in vivo measurements of estrous cycles and weight were followed by ex vivo examination of hippocampal dentate granule cell dispersion, circulating ovarian hormone and corticosterone levels, ovarian morphology, and pituitary gene expression. IHKA mice with right-targeted injection (IHKA-R) showed greater granule cell dispersion and pituitary Fshb expression compared to mice with left-targeted injection (IHKA-L). By contrast, pituitary expression of Lhb and Gnrhr were higher in IHKA-L mice compared to IHKA-R, but these values were not different from respective saline-injected controls. IHKA-L mice also showed an increased rate of weight gain compared to IHKA-R mice. Increases in estrous cycle length, however, were similar in both IHKA-L and IHKA-R mice. These findings indicate that although major reproductive endocrine dysfunction phenotypes present similarly after targeting left or right dorsal hippocampus for IHKA injection, distinct underlying mechanisms based on lateralization of epileptogenic insult may contribute to produce similar emergent reproductive endocrine outcomes.
HighlightsO_LIGreater granule cell dispersion with right-sided IHKA injection
C_LIO_LIChanges in pituitary gene expression vary with side of injection
C_LIO_LIIncreased weight gain after left-sided injection
C_LIO_LISimilar estrous cycle disruption after injection of left or right hippocampus
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Intense, life changing, a must read for anyone!
Ever read a book that you hope changes someone’s life? This is that book. I am Iris I felt her pain, her soul her heart beating while reading this book. I laughed I cried and even smiled and felt myself get even stronger knowing that I am a strong woman like Iris and nothing will change that. Yes this book has many talks about basketball and careers but it’s so much more. August is the sexy man on the cover with his good looks he’s more than that he’s a woman’s dream come true. Once you read the book I hope it changes your thoughts or truly makes you think about people around you daily. Long Shot is truly one book I’ll never forget. 5/5 stars definitely a 10 Star read and my top book of 2018 ***Reviewed by Sweet & Spicy Reads a voluntarily Advanced Reader Copy of this book ****
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We have studied low-temperature properties of interacting electrons in a
one-dimensional quantum wire (Luttinger liquid) side-hybridized with a
single-level impurity. The hybridization induces a back-scattering of electrons
in the wire which strongly affects its low energy properties. Using a one-loop
renormalization group approach valid for a weak electron-electron interaction,
we have calculated a transmission coefficient through the wire,
$\mathcal{T}(\varepsilon)$, and a local density of states, $\nu(\varepsilon)$
at low energies $\varepsilon $. In particular, we have found that the
antiresonance in $\mathcal{T}(\varepsilon)$ has a generalized Breit-Wigner
shape with the effective width $\Gamma(\varepsilon)$ which diverges at the
Fermi level.
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We present comprehensive results on the edge-mode velocities in a quantum
Hall droplet with realistic interaction and confinement at various filling
fractions. We demonstrate that the charge-mode velocity scales roughly with the
valence Landau level filling fraction and the Coulomb energy in the
corresponding Landau level. At Landau level filling fraction nu = 5/2, the
stark difference between the bosonic charge-mode velocity and the fermionic
neutral-mode velocity can manifest itself in the thermal smearing of the
non-Abelian quasiparticle interference. We estimate the dependence of the
coherence temperature on the confining potential strength, which may be tunable
experimentally to enhance the non-Abelian state.
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It is shown that the second term in the asymptotic expansion as $t\to 0$ of
the trace of the semigroup of symmetric stable processes (fractional powers of
the Laplacian) of order $\alpha$, for any $0<\alpha<2$, in Lipschitz domains is
given by the surface area of the boundary of the domain. This brings the
asymptotics for the trace of stable processes in domains of Euclidean space on
par with those of Brownian motion (the Laplacian), as far as boundary
smoothness is concerned.
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The project can continue--just under a new government in 2019-one that avoids Quebec and their back stabbing ways mixed with sewage dumping and goes through Maine to Saint John and Eastport Maine. We need access to the Atlantic to sell our oil and supply Atlantic Canada. Trans Mountain will likely be dragged out in the courts by the BC NDP and Liberal free spending drive up the deficits to many more billions. I think we need Brad Wall--does not speak French- not important anymore and the Conservatives can get a majority without Quebec- who can leave any time they want with 25 % of Canada's debt and Coderre can become the Joker King of the republic of Quebec with his Mafia buddies.
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This is probably the best movie filmed in at least the last five years. I've always believed that making people cry is far more difficult than making them laugh. If you want to see 400 adults crying out loud in the same room, go see this movie. It's breathtaking. Javier Bardem performs the role of his life. You will cry, you will laugh, you will smile... The most deserving fact is that in Spain everybody knows about Ramon Sampedro. Personally I knew the full story and even the end of it. So, the excellence of the movie is in the way that the story is told. And in this field, Amenabar is a THE master.<br /><br />This movie is a MUST.
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We report the discovery of a minor planet (2006 SQ372) on an orbit with a
perihelion of 24 AU and a semimajor axis of 796 AU. Dynamical simulations show
that this is a transient orbit and is unstable on a timescale of 200 Myrs.
Falling near the upper semimajor axis range of the scattered disk and the lower
semimajor axis range of the Oort Cloud, previous membership in either class is
possible. By modeling the production of similar orbits from the Oort Cloud as
well as from the scattered disk, we find that the Oort Cloud produces 16 times
as many objects on SQ372-like orbits as the scattered disk. Given this result,
we believe this to be the most distant long-period comet ever discovered.
Furthermore, our simulation results also indicate that 2000 OO67 has had a
similar dynamical history. Unaffected by the "Jupiter-Saturn Barrier," these
two objects are most likely long-period comets from the inner Oort Cloud.
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"NOT ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS AND DEMANDING ANSWERS?"
I'm not certain exactly what leverage you think a federal manager has. We've just seen this week, U.S. Senators, with cameras on them, presumptively with the power to ultimately refer folks for criminal prosecution, unable to get any answers out of the Attorney General, who seems to be suffering from an acute case of amnesia.
Like most of gov't, there's probably a dozen or more people who all have a say on matters and whose approval must be won but not one of which is personally given the authority and power to see that "Project X" is done. (Indeed, doing so would only raise the risk of fraud and mismanagement.) Bottom Line: the VA had no business taking on a construction project this size/complexity; Congress resolved by taking this power away.
There's plenty of blame to assign here but the idea that one guy can pound the table and impose his will on the entire VA is not only absurd but an assertion of great comic relief!
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Emotions are a crucial part of compelling narratives: literature tells us
about people with goals, desires, passions, and intentions. Emotion analysis is
part of the broader and larger field of sentiment analysis, and receives
increasing attention in literary studies. In the past, the affective dimension
of literature was mainly studied in the context of literary hermeneutics.
However, with the emergence of the research field known as Digital Humanities
(DH), some studies of emotions in a literary context have taken a computational
turn. Given the fact that DH is still being formed as a field, this direction
of research can be rendered relatively new. In this survey, we offer an
overview of the existing body of research on emotion analysis as applied to
literature. The research under review deals with a variety of topics including
tracking dramatic changes of a plot development, network analysis of a literary
text, and understanding the emotionality of texts, among other topics.
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Mixed Feelings - Great dog food - Recent Dilemma
I am a bit at a loss. I have ordered Taste of the Wild dog food for my puppy and overall am very happy with the product itself. However, with this last delivery, the bag seems to have come with an ant infestation. I brought the delivery box inside upon delivery and a few hours later had ants all over my home. I put the box (still unopened) in the garage with ant bait and they still seemed to be pouring out of the box with the bag of dog food inside. Finally, I opened the box and put the ant bait inside to see if I could remedy the situation. It has been about a week - the bag of dog food is still UNOPENED - and I still have ants. I don't want to return the bag with ants still coming out for the individuals who would be handling it during transport but don't know how else to contact the seller about how they want me to proceed.
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We study Sobolev estimates for the solutions of parabolic equations acting on
a vector bundle, in a complete, compact or non compact, riemannian manifold
$M.$ The idea is to introduce geometric weights on $M.$ We get global Sobolev
estimates with these weights. As applications, we find and improve "classical
results", i.e. results without weights, by use of a Theorem by Hebey and
Herzlich. As an example we get Sobolev estimates for the solutions of the heat
equation on $p$-forms when the manifold has "weak bounded geometry " of order
$1$.
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Automatic identification of brain lesions from magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) scans of stroke survivors would be a useful aid in patient diagnosis and
treatment planning. We propose a multi-modal multi-path convolutional neural
network system for automating stroke lesion segmentation. Our system has nine
end-to-end UNets that take as input 2-dimensional (2D) slices and examines all
three planes with three different normalizations. Outputs from these nine total
paths are concatenated into a 3D volume that is then passed to a 3D
convolutional neural network to output a final lesion mask. We trained and
tested our method on datasets from three sources: Medical College of Wisconsin
(MCW), Kessler Foundation (KF), and the publicly available Anatomical Tracings
of Lesions After Stroke (ATLAS) dataset. Cross-study validation results (with
independent training and validation datasets) were obtained to compare with
previous methods based on naive Bayes, random forests, and three recently
published convolutional neural networks. Model performance was quantified in
terms of the Dice coefficient. Training on the KF and MCW images and testing on
the ATLAS images yielded a mean Dice coefficient of 0.54. This was reliably
better than the next best previous model, UNet, at 0.47. Reversing the train
and test datasets yields a mean Dice of 0.47 on KF and MCW images, whereas the
next best UNet reaches 0.45. With all three datasets combined, the current
system compared to previous methods also attained a reliably higher
cross-validation accuracy. It also achieved high Dice values for many smaller
lesions that existing methods have difficulty identifying. Overall, our system
is a clear improvement over previous methods for automating stroke lesion
segmentation, bringing us an important step closer to the inter-rater accuracy
level of human experts.
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As the film reviewer for a local gay magazine I automatically get sent any dreck if it happens to have a homo in it. Chicken Tikka Masala is churning on in the background as I write this. I gave it my undivided attention for 53 minutes before I found myself involuntarily shouting - like a Tourrette's sufferer -"This is the sh**test film I have ever seen". We're just coming to the emotional climax where the son is giving some coming out speech to his father at his wedding. Father seems to be taking it quite well. An attempted honour killing at this point would at least have livened the film up a bit. And made it funnier. <br /><br />I didn't particularly like Beautiful Thing, for example, but could at least see why other people did. It was made with some professionalism and I seem to remember it had at least a couple of good lines. The lack of wit in this film is quite astounding - even the most mediocre sitcom will tend to have recognisable jokes. The nearest this movie got to being funny (at least in its first 53 mins) was the subtitled comment delivered to the fat unattractive female lead "Look at her with her legs wide open - she's like the Mersey Tunnel." Completely witless and I didn't crack a smile but I could imagine someone with a low IQ (who perhaps works in a chip shop) enjoying it.<br /><br />I'd imagine it's some Lottery-funded atrocity. If not I can at least console myself with the fact that the backers will lose a substantial amount of money as even a low-budget British film will still set someone back a couple of million. Seriously, if I met the most handsome bloke in the world and, on going back to his place to make sweet love, I found a copy of this in his DVD collection ("Man, I love this film") I'd probably kick him in the nuts and leave forthwith. And this from someone who's gone about six months without any of the aforementioned sweet love. <br /><br />Oh Lord I hate this film.
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We report on a comprehensive analysis of the kilohertz (above 300 Hz)
quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) detected from the neutron star low-mass
X-ray binary 4U0614+09 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). With a much
larger data set than previously analyzed (all archival data from February 1996
up to October 2007), we first investigate the reality of the 1330 Hz QPO
reported by van Straaten et al. (2000). This QPO would be of particular
interest since it has the highest frequency reported for any source. A thorough
analysis of the same observation fails to confirm the detection. On the other
hand, over our extended data set, the highest QPO frequency we measure for the
upper kHz QPO is at about 1224 Hz; a value which is fully consistent with the
maximum values observed in similar systems. Second, we demonstrate that the
frequency dependence of the quality factor and amplitude of the lower and upper
kHz QPOs follow the systematic trends seen in similar systems (Barret et al.,
2006). In particular, 4U0614+09 shows a drop of the quality factor of the lower
kHz QPO above 700 Hz. If this is due to an approach to the innermost stable
circular orbit, it implies a neutron star mass of about 1.9 solar masses.
Finally, when analyzing the data over fixed durations, we have found a gap in
the frequency distribution of the upper QPO, associated with a local minimum of
its amplitude. A similar gap is not present in the distribution of the lower
QPO frequencies, suggesting some cautions when interpreting frequency ratio
distributions, based on the occurrence of the lower QPO only.
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I don't think it ever was an issue until the lawsuit to have the right to wear the niqab to the swearing in ceremony.
She wasn't even Canadian yet, but our supreme court ruled to change our laws for her. She even admitted that this wasn't a religious requirement for her. It was a personal choice.
The supreme court let us down and this is setting the record straight.
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Great quality and design
Great quality, as good as if not more sturdy than my Ray Bans. Good to take to places you may lose them (i.e. concerts, the beach) if you don't want to lose an expensive pair. Unfortunately mine fell victim to my recent adventures, ordering again. Only complaint is that I should get commission on how many of these I got my friends to buy. ;)
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Extreme learning machine (ELM) as a simple and rapid neural network has been
shown its good performance in various areas. Different from the general single
hidden layer feedforward neural network (SLFN), the input weights and biases in
hidden layer of ELM are generated randomly, so that it only takes a little
computation overhead to train the model. However, the strategy of selecting
input weights and biases at random may result in ill-posed problem. Aiming to
optimize the conditioning of ELM, we propose an effective particle swarm
heuristic algorithm called Multitask Beetle Antennae Swarm Algorithm (MBAS),
which is inspired by the structures of artificial bee colony (ABS) algorithm
and Beetle Antennae Search (BAS) algorithm. Then, the proposed MBAS is applied
to optimize the input weights and biases of ELM. Experiment results show that
the proposed method is capable of simultaneously reducing the condition number
and regression error, and achieving good generalization performances.
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When the difference between changes in energy and entropy at a given
temperature is correlated with the ratio between the same changes in energy and
entropy at zero average free energy of an ensemble of similar but distinct
molecule-sized objects, a highly significant linear dependence results from
which a relationship between energy and entropy is derived and the degree of
similarity between the distinctly different members within the group of objects
can be quantified. This fundamental energy-entropy relationship is likely to be
of general interest in physics, most notably in particle physics and cosmology.
We predict a consistent and testable way of classifying mini black holes, to be
generated in future Large Hadron Collider experiments, by their gravitational
energy and area entropy. For any isolated universe we propose absolute
temperature and absolute time to be equivalent, much in the same way as energy
and entropy are for an isolated ensemble of similar objects. According to this
principle, the cosmological constant is the squared product of absolute time
and absolute temperature. The symmetry break into a time component and a
temperature component of the universe takes place when the first irreversible
movement occurs owing to a growing accessed total volume.
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This 1-hour 30-minute inside joke is best understood by Catholics, the number one religion of self-medicating comedians the world over. That isn't to say it can't stand on its own which it does, that the film isn't without its flaws, which its got. Technical issues, mostly: Belief that in 1998 digital was the answer when in fact it was in its infancy - a Beta of a Beta if you will, and re-mastering will never improve it. For the love of God, Hal...please get yourself a Red One. Or three.<br /><br />If you like Hartley films of course, you'll like it. I liked it, because I liked Grim/Fool, and there were added benefits of retrospect: I couldn't help noticing a disturbing self-prophecy, an airliner soaring overhead, used as a harbinger of Armageddon in this 1998 movie. It was as if Cheney had gotten the whole idea from Hal. It's true - Hartley moves his players round into the camera like it's the House of Commons, just one piece of the gimmickry that needs a rest. After all, we're already paying attention to the actors, and the writing is alive. Not great writing, but...fervent. Can I use the word fervent? Purposeful, intelligent, not condescending.<br /><br />Absolutely love PJ Harvey in this, course I'd love her anywhere. Oddly, if Helen Mirren needs a younger self, she should look Harvey up and bring a bottle of blond.
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because people have to vote in different area and uh not everyone votes at the same place uh i personally think that we need to do more along the education lines in the schools to children from the little ones on up with the idea of the the value of voting and the purpose of voting and that one vote does make a difference but
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Pruning is a standard technique for removing unnecessary structure from a
neural network to reduce its storage footprint, computational demands, or
energy consumption. Pruning can reduce the parameter-counts of many
state-of-the-art neural networks by an order of magnitude without compromising
accuracy, meaning these networks contain a vast amount of unnecessary
structure. In this paper, we study the relationship between pruning and
interpretability. Namely, we consider the effect of removing unnecessary
structure on the number of hidden units that learn disentangled representations
of human-recognizable concepts as identified by network dissection. We aim to
evaluate how the interpretability of pruned neural networks changes as they are
compressed. We find that pruning has no detrimental effect on this measure of
interpretability until so few parameters remain that accuracy beings to drop.
Resnet-50 models trained on ImageNet maintain the same number of interpretable
concepts and units until more than 90% of parameters have been pruned.
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In this note we study the special fiber of the Rapoport-Zink space attached
to a quaternionic unitary group. The special fiber is described using the so
called Bruhat-Tits stratification and is intimately related to the Bruhat-Tits
building of a split symplectic group. As an application we describe the
supersingular locus of the related Shimura variety.
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yeah that's right i can do that exactly you sure can you can network them together and everything it's a fantastic machine needless to say so i'm very uh high on it but you said you have computers Suns at work right what other machines do you all have at work
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I propose a new volume-weighted probability measure for cosmological
"multiverse" scenarios involving eternal inflation. The "reheating-volume (RV)
cutoff" calculates the distribution of observable quantities on a portion of
the reheating hypersurface that is conditioned to be finite. The RV measure is
gauge-invariant, does not suffer from the "youngness paradox," and is
independent of initial conditions at the beginning of inflation. In slow-roll
inflationary models with a scalar inflaton, the RV-regulated probability
distributions can be obtained by solving nonlinear diffusion equations. I
discuss possible applications of the new measure to "landscape" scenarios with
bubble nucleation. As an illustration, I compute the predictions of the RV
measure in a simple toy landscape.
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Multiplicative bundle gerbes are gerbes over a Lie group which are compatible
with the group structure. In this article connections on such bundle gerbes are
introduced and studied. It is shown that multiplicative bundle gerbes with
connection furnish geometrical constructions of the following objects: smooth
central extensions of loop groups, Chern-Simons actions for arbitrary gauge
groups, and symmetric bi-branes for WZW models with topological defect lines.
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We prove an identity [Eq. (1) below] among SU(2) 6j and 9j symbols that
generalizes the Biedenharn-Elliott sum rule. We prove the result using
diagrammatic techniques (briefly reviewed here), and then provide an algebraic
proof. This identity is useful for studying meson-baryon scattering in which an
extra isoscalar meson is produced.
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We present the GiBUU model for neutrino nucleus scattering: assuming impulse
approximation, this reaction is treated as a two step process. In the initial
state step, the neutrinos interact with bound nucleons. In the final state
step, the outgoing particles of the initial reaction are propagated through the
nucleus and undergo final state interactions. In this contribution, we focus on
the validation of the initial and final state interaction treatment in GiBUU
using experimental data for pion-nucleus, photon-nucleus and electron-nucleus
scattering.
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We analyze the physical conditions in the interstellar gas of 11 actively
star-forming galaxies at z~2, based on integral-field spectroscopy from the
ESO-VLT and HST/NICMOS imaging. We concentrate on the high H-alpha surface
brightnesses, large line widths, line ratios and the clumpy nature of these
galaxies. We show that photoionization calculations and emission line
diagnostics imply gas pressures and densities that are similar to the most
intense nearby star-forming regions at z=0 but over much larger scales (10-20
kpc). A relationship between surface brightness and velocity dispersion can be
explained through simple energy injection arguments and a scaling set by nearby
galaxies with no free parameters. The high velocity dispersions are a natural
consequence of intense star formation thus regions of high velocity dispersion
are not evidence for mass concentrations such as bulges or rings. External
mechanisms like cosmological gas accretion generally do not have enough energy
to sustain the high velocity dispersions. In some cases, the high pressures and
low gas metallicites may make it difficult to robustly distinguish between AGN
ionization cones and star formation, as we show for BzK-15504 at z=2.38. We
construct a picture where the early stages of galaxy evolution are driven by
self-gravity which powers strong turbulence until the velocity dispersion is
high. Then massive, dense, gas-rich clumps collapse, triggering star formation
with high efficiencies and intensities as observed. At this stage, the intense
star formation is likely self-regulated by the mechanical energy output of
massive stars.
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From around the time Europe began fighting World War II, until the war's end, Hollywood (with significant prodding from the government) made tons of movies which were designed to try and get young men to enlist in the Army, by making the life of a serviceman appear "cool." This is by far the sloppiest, implying that the life of a soldier is devoid of work, you get the best food, and you get to lie around all day listening to Ann Miller on the radio. I am far too young to have participated in WWII, but I think that there was more to it than that. There is the barest cat's whisker of a plot, and a bunch of musical numbers featuring some of the day's leading acts.<br /><br />I think that by 1943, even the most naive of civvies knew that there was more going on overseas than the wacky hijinks portrayed in this movie. While I am sure that it was meant to be viewed as escapist entertainment, I can't help but wonder if the family and loved ones of men fighting in the war, were amused or repulsed by this trivialization of their loved ones' sacrifice.
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Finding fingerprints of disordered Weyl semimetals (WSMs) is an unsolved
task. Here we report such findings in the level statistics and the fractal
nature of electron wavefunction around Weyl nodes of disordered WSMs. The
nearest-neighbor level spacing follows a new universal distribution $P_c(s)=C_1
s^2\exp[-C_2 s^{2-\gamma_0}]$ originally proposed for the level statistics of
critical states in the integer quantum Hall systems or normal dirty metals
(diffusive metals) at metal-to-insulator transitions, instead of the
Wigner-Dyson distribution for diffusive metals. Numerically, we find
$\gamma_0=0.62\pm0.07$. In contrast to the Bloch wavefuntions of clean WSMs
that uniformly distribute over the whole space of ($D=3$) at large length
scale, the wavefunction of disordered WSMs at a Weyl node occupies a fractal
space of dimension $D=2.18\pm 0.05$. The finite size scaling of the inverse
participation ratio suggests that the correlation length of wavefunctions at
Weyl nodes ($E=0$) diverges as $\xi\propto |E|^{-\nu}$ with $\nu=0.89\pm0.05$.
In the ergodic limit,the level number variance $\Sigma_2$ around Weyl nodes
increases linearly with the average level number $N$, $\Sigma_2=\chi N$, where
$\chi= 0.2\pm0.1$ is independent of system sizes and disorder strengths.
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Over priced plus shipping and handling
It wasn't worth what it cost,it would be different if it made some sounds. But bascially its a prop,not worth the price it was sold for. Just a look a like prop. I wouldn't recommend buying it,you would do better buying a dollar store gun.
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The spinor variety is cut out by the quadratic Wick relations among the
principal Pfaffians of an n x n skew-symmetric matrix. Its points correspond to
n-dimensional isotropic subspaces of a 2n-dimensional vector space. In this
paper we tropicalize this picture, and we develop a combinatorial theory of
tropical Wick vectors and tropical linear spaces that are tropically isotropic.
We characterize tropical Wick vectors in terms of subdivisions of Delta-matroid
polytopes, and we examine to what extent the Wick relations form a tropical
basis. Our theory generalizes several results for tropical linear spaces and
valuated matroids to the class of Coxeter matroids of type D.
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A recent Brief Report [Phys. Rev. A 79, 035801 (2009)] investigates two
figures of merit for heralded photon sources based on spontaneous parametric
down-conversion with a continuous pump, namely the time-averaged temporal
coherence between the signal and idler beams and the time-averaged conditioned
second-order degree of coherence for photons in the heralded arm. However,
contrary to what is claimed, no one-arm second-order effect is actually
measured.
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Would we be surprised that the 'hot house' of neo-liberalism would offer praise for the infrastructure bank plan? The IMF lives on the deeply held faith of market fundamentalism in which public good and public interest are alien concepts.
On the other hand,
Case for Canada Infrastructure Bank ‘not compelling’
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/case-for-canada-infrastructure-bank-not-compelling-researchers-warn/article34898110/
“Where Were They Going Without Ever Knowing the Way?” Assessing the Risks and Opportunities of the Canada Infrastructure Bank
http://ifsd.ca/en/blog/last-page-blog/the-way-CIB
Is Infrastructure a Public Good? No, Sort Of, and What Role for the Public and Private Sectors
http://ifsd.ca/en/blog/last-page-blog/infrastructure-public-good
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Life Saver, Marriage Saver
Got these for my brother-in-law for Christmas. He loves LOUD sports on once he comes home from work and my sis has an emotionally demanding job and her brain needs quiet. They said these were easy to sync to their TV and he loves them. Win, win.
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We study the influence of the tidal charge parameter of the braneworld models
onto some optical phenomena in rotating black hole spacetimes. The escape
photon cones are determined for special families of locally non-rotating,
circular geodetical and radially free falling observers. The silhouette of a
rotating black hole, the shape of an equatorial thin accretion disk and time
delay effect for direct and indirect images of a radiation hot spot orbiting
the black hole are given and classified in terms of the black hole rotational
and tidal parameters. It is shown that rising of negatively-valued tidal
parameter, with rotational parameter fixed, generally strenghtens the
relativistic effects and suppresses the rotation induced asymmetries in the
optical phenomena.
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Lascar described E_KP as a composition of E_L and the topological closure of
EL. We generalize this result to some other pairs of equivalence relations.
Motivated by an attempt to construct a new example of a non-G-compact theory,
we consider the following example. Assume G is a group definable in a structure
M. We define a structure M_0 consisting of M and X as two sorts, where X is an
affine copy of G and in M_0 we have the structure of M and the action of G on
X. We prove that the Lascar group of M_0 is a semi-direct product of the Lascar
group of M and G/G_L. We discuss the relationship between G-compactness of M
and M_0. This example may yield new examples of non-G-compact theories.
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After a brief summary of general relativity and cosmology, we present the
basic concepts underlying inflation, the currently best motivated models for
the early Universe. We describe the simplest inflation models, based on a
single scalar field, and discuss how primordial cosmological perturbations are
generated. We then review some recent developments concerning multi-field
inflation models, in particular multi-field Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation.
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Directions
It came with NO DIRECTIONS on how to put together. It came in pieces. I will change my review once I receive directions on how to put together. Hopefully, I will receive them soon or I will be returning. If I receive directions and I am happy with it I actually wanted to buy a second one. Help would be appreciated!!!!!!
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The vast majority of people in half-way houses don't walk away, and apparently those that do, do no harm. So what's your beef, exactly? Just another ignorant, self-righteous "lock 'em up and throw away the key" proponent with no desire to actually address the huge problem Alaska--not to mention the rest of the United States--has with incarcerating significant portions of the population for long periods of time, which has been proven countless times exacerbate criminogenic tendencies and mental health issues, increase recidivism and create mental health problems in those who enter prison without them. Not to mention the creation of a whole class of people who have been deliberately institutionalize by the state and p, once released, cannot get a job or function properly in society because of it.
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In this paper we study the Cauchy problem associated to the
Maxwell-Schr\"odinger system with a defocusing pure-power non-linearity. This
system has many applications in physics, for instance in the description of a
charged non-relativistic quantum plasma, interacting with its self-generated
electromagnetic potential. One consequence of our analysis is to demonstrate
that the Lorentz force associated with the electromagnetic field is
well-defined for solutions slightly more regular than the finite energy class.
This aspect is of fundamental importance since all the related physical models
require the observability of electromagnetic effects. The well-posedness of the
Lorentz force still seems to be a major open problem in the class of solutions
which are only finite energy. We show the global well-posedness at high
regularity for the cubic and sub-cubic case, and we provide polynomial bounds
for the growth of the Sobolev norm of the solutions, for a certain range of
non-linearities. An important role is played by appropriate a priori dispersive
estimates, obtained by means of Koch-Tzvetkov type bounds for the
non-homogeneous Schr\"odinger equation, which overcome the lack of Strichartz
estimates for the magnetic Schr\"odinger flow. Because of the power-type
non-linearity, the propagation of higher regularity, globally in time, cannot
be achieved via a bootstrap argument as done in [44]. Our approach then
exploits the analysis of a modified energy functional, combined with the a
priori bounds coming from the dispersive estimates obtained previously.
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For goodness sake, have you even read The Handmaid's Tale? Where is MW getting the similarity to Islam? There is none. She started off with a twisted suggestion that rather than the environment causing sterilization, progressive women themselves may have pushed childbearing out of their reach by working rather than planning families. A thought, but the whole thing deteriorated after that.
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The present work proposes a discussion on the self-energy of charged
particles in the framework of nonlinear electrodynamics. We seek magnet- ically
stable solutions generated by purely electric charges whose electric and
magnetic fields are computed as solutions to the Born-Infeld equa- tions. The
approach yields rich internal structures that can be described in terms of the
physical fields with explicit analytic solutions. This suggests that the
anomalous field probably originates from a magnetic excitation in the vacuum
due to the presence of the very intense electric field. In addition, the
magnetic contribution has been found to exert a negative pressure on the
charge. This, in turn, balances the electric repulsion, in such a way that the
self-interaction of the field appears as a simple and natural classical
mechanism that is able to account for the stability of the electron charge.
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We present infrared, optical, and X-ray data of 48 X-ray bright, optically
dull AGNs in the COSMOS field. These objects exhibit the X-ray luminosity of an
active galactic nucleus (AGN) but lack broad and narrow emission lines in their
optical spectrum. We show that despite the lack of optical emission lines, most
of these optically dull AGNs are not well-described by a typical passive red
galaxy spectrum: instead they exhibit weak but significant blue emission like
an unobscured AGN. Photometric observations over several years additionally
show significant variability in the blue emission of four optically dull AGNs.
The nature of the blue and infrared emission suggest that the optically
inactive appearance of these AGNs cannot be caused by obscuration intrinsic to
the AGNs. Instead, up to ~70% of optically dull AGNs are diluted by their
hosts, with bright or simply edge-on hosts lying preferentially within the
spectroscopic aperture. The remaining ~30% of optically dull AGNs have
anomalously high f_x/f_o ratios and are intrinsically weak, not obscured, in
the optical. These optically dull AGNs are best described as a weakly accreting
AGN with a truncated accretion disk from a radiatively inefficient accretion
flow.
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The atmospheric circulation in the upper atmosphere of hot Jupiter planets is
strongly influenced by the incoming stellar radiation. In this work we explore
the results from a 3D atmospheric model and revisit the main processes driving
the circulation in hot Jupiter planets. We use the angular momentum transport
as a diagnostic and carry out a Fourier analysis to identify the atmospheric
waves involved. We find that the coupling between the angular momentum
transported horizontally by the semi-diurnal tide and the mean circulation is
the mechanism responsible for producing the strong jet at low latitudes. Our
simulations indicate the possible formation of atmospheric indirect cells at
low latitudes. The formation of these cells is induced by the presence of the
semi-diurnal tide that is driven by the stellar irradiation. The tropical
circulation has an important impact transporting heat and momentum from the
upper towards the lower atmosphere. One of the consequences of this heat and
momentum transport is a global increase of the temperature. We show that the
initial conditions do not affect the output of the reference simulation.
However, when the period of rotation of the planet was increased ($P_{rot} > 5$
Earth days), vertical transport by stationary waves became stronger, transient
waves became non-negligible, and Coriolis influence less dominant, which
allowed a steady state with a strong retrograde jet to be stable. We found that
at least two statically steady state solutions exist for the same planet
parameters.
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Here we present the Spitzer IRS spectrum of CVSO 224, the sole transitional
disk located within the ~10 Myr old 25 Orionis group in Orion OB1a. A model fit
to the spectral energy distribution of this object indicates a ~7 AU inner disk
hole that contains a small amount of optically thin dust. In previous studies,
CVSO 224 had been classified as a weak-line T Tauri star based on its Halpha
equivalent width, but here we find an accretion rate of 7x10^-11 Msun/yr based
on high-resolution Hectochelle data. CVSO 224's low mass accretion rate is in
line with photoevaporative clearing theories. However, the Spitzer IRS spectrum
of CVSO 224 has a substantial mid-infrared excess beyond 20microns which
indicates that it is surrounded by a massive outer disk. Millimeter
measurements are necessary to constrain the mass of the outer disk around CVSO
224 in order to confirm that photoevaporation is not the mechanism behind
creating its inner disk hole.
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Spray bottle is inferior
It comes to you with the spray nozzle and siphon hose separate. I was unable to connect the siphon hose to the nozzle. It is a a VERY difficult and tight fit. I’ll have to transfer the product to another bottle! “What odor?” Needs another packaging plan. At least have the little siphon hose already connected to the spray head. I wouldn’t buy it until this problem is addressed.
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In this paper we provide key estimates used in the stability and error
analysis of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEMs) on domains
with curved boundaries. In particular, we review trace estimates, inverse
estimates, discrete Poincar\'e--Friedrichs' inequalities, and optimal
interpolation estimates in noninteger Hilbert-Sobolev norms, that are well
known in the case of polytopal domains. We also prove curvature bounds for
curved simplices, which does not seem to be present in the existing literature,
even in the polytopal setting, since polytopal domains have piecewise zero
curvature. We demonstrate the value of these estimates, by analysing the IPDG
method for the Poisson problem, introduced by Douglas and Dupont
[\emph{Computing Methods in Applied Sciences, Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 58.
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg}, pages 207--216. Springer, 1976], and by
analysing a variant of the $hp$-DGFEM for the biharmonic problem introduced by
Mozolevski and S\"{u}li [\emph{Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and
Engineering}, 196(13-16):1851--1863, 2007]. In both cases we prove stability
estimates and optimal a priori error estimates. Numerical results are provided,
validating the proven error estimates.
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Event detection (ED), a sub-task of event extraction, involves identifying
triggers and categorizing event mentions. Existing methods primarily rely upon
supervised learning and require large-scale labeled event datasets which are
unfortunately not readily available in many real-life applications. In this
paper, we consider and reformulate the ED task with limited labeled data as a
Few-Shot Learning problem. We propose a Dynamic-Memory-Based Prototypical
Network (DMB-PN), which exploits Dynamic Memory Network (DMN) to not only learn
better prototypes for event types, but also produce more robust sentence
encodings for event mentions. Differing from vanilla prototypical networks
simply computing event prototypes by averaging, which only consume event
mentions once, our model is more robust and is capable of distilling contextual
information from event mentions for multiple times due to the multi-hop
mechanism of DMNs. The experiments show that DMB-PN not only deals with sample
scarcity better than a series of baseline models but also performs more
robustly when the variety of event types is relatively large and the instance
quantity is extremely small.
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Let $X$ be an arbitrary separable symmetric space on $[0,1]$. By using a
combination of the frame approach and the notion of the multiplicator space
$\mathscr{M}(X)$ of $X$ with respect to the tensor product, we investigate the
problem when the sequence of dyadic dilations and translations of a function
$f\in X$ is a representing system in the space $X$. The main result reads that
this holds whenever $\int_0^1 f(t)\,dt\ne 0$ and $f\in \mathscr{M}(X)$.
Moreover, the condition $f\in\mathscr{M}(X)$ turns out to be sharp in a certain
sense. In particular, we prove that a decreasing nonnegative function $f$,
$f\ne 0$, from a Lorentz space $\varLambda_{\varphi}$ generates an absolutely
representing system of dyadic dilations and translations in
$\varLambda_{\varphi}$ if and only if $f\in\mathscr{M}(\varLambda_{\varphi})$.
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We conducted sub-arcsecond near-infrared imaging observations of RNO91 with
CIAO mounted on the SUBARU 8.2 m telescope. We present our JHK band data along
with optical images, which when considered together reveal a complex
circumstellar structure. We examined the colors of associated nebula and
compared the geometry of the outflow/disk system suggested by our data with
that already proposed on the basis of previous studies. Our K-band image shows
bright circumstellar nebulosity detected within 2"(300AU) around the central
source while it is less conspicuous at shorter wavelengths such as J and
optical. P.A. and size of this red color nebulosity in our H-K color image
agree with those of the previously detected polarization disk. These data
agreement indicate that this bright circumstellar nebulosity region which
follows the reddening law might be attributed to a disk-like structure. At J
and optical wavelengths, several blue knot-like structures are detected around
and beyond the bright circumstellar nebulosity. We suggest that these knotty
reflection nebulae may represent disintegrating fragments of an infalling
envelope. The three-color composite image has an appearance of arc-shaped
nebulosity extending to the north and to the east through the central source.
On the other end of this arc-shaped structure, the nebula appears to become
more extended (2."3 long) to the southwest. We interpret these structures as
roots of bipolar cavities opening to the northeast and southwest. The complex
distribution of reflection nebulosity seen around RNO91 appears to confirm the
interpretation of this source as an object dispersing its molecular envelope
while transitioning from protostar to T Tauri star.
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The Fe-based Oxypnicide superconductors have generated a huge amount of
interest; they are a high temperature superconductor, with a Tc of 55K, but do
not have the two dimensional copper oxygen layer that was thought essential for
superconductivity at these high temperatures. Initial studies have hinted
towards the possibility of a spin density wave (SDW) in these compounds and how
they could play an important role in the superconductivity. SDW's occur at low
temperatures in low-dimensional materials with strong electron correlations or
in metals with a high density of states at the Fermi surface. A transition to
the SDW state has many similarities to the superconducting transition, driven
by the condensation energy with an energy gap opening, and in many materials
the SDW state occurs adjacent in the phase diagram to the superconducting
state. In these materials it is believed that electron doping suppresses the
SDW instability allowing superconductivity to emerge. In this paper we report
on the first direct experimental evidence of a SDW in the LaFeAsO parent
compound as observed with inelastic neutron scattering. We show that these
excitation derive from a two-dimensional Fermi surface nesting with a nesting
vector of (\pi,\pi,0).
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Computational techniques have shown much promise in the field of Finance,
owing to their ability to extract sense out of dauntingly complex systems. This
paper reviews the most promising of these techniques, from traditional
computational intelligence methods to their machine learning siblings, with
particular view to their application in optimising the management of a
portfolio of financial instruments. The current state of the art is assessed,
and prospective further work is assessed and recommended
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We study the distribution of the negative Wiener-Hopf factor for a class of
two-sided jumps L\'evy processes whose positive jumps have a rational Laplace
transform. The positive Wiener-Hopf factor for this class of processes was
studied by Lewis and Mordecki (2008). Here we obtain a formula for the Laplace
transform of the negative Wiener-Hopf factor, as well as an explicit expression
for its probability density, which is in terms of sums of convolutions of known
functions. Under additional regularity conditions on the L\'evy measure of the
studied processes, we also provide asymptotic results as $u\to-\infty$ for the
distribution function $F(u)$ of the negative Wiener-Hopf factor. We illustrate
our results in some particular examples.
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We discuss rapidity decorrelation caused by hydrodynamic fluctuations in
high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC energy. We employ an integrated
dynamical model which is a combination of the Monte Carlo version of Glauber
model with extension to longitudinal direction for initial conditions, full
three-dimensional relativistic fluctuating hydrodynamics for the space-time
evolution of created matter in the intermediate stage and a hadronic cascade
model in the late stage. We switch on and off the hydrodynamic fluctuations in
the hydrodynamic stage to understand the effects of hydrodynamic fluctuations
on factorisation ratios $r_{n}(\eta^a_p, \eta^b_p)$. To understand the rapidity
gap dependence of the factorisation ratio comprehensively, we analyse Legendre
coefficients $A^k_2$ and $B^k_2$.
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Based on the particular orderings introduced for the positive roots of finite
dimensional basic Lie superalgebras, we construct the explicit differential
operator representations of the $osp(2r|2n)$ and $osp(2r+1|2n)$ superalgebras
and the explicit free field realizations of the corresponding current
superalgebras $osp(2r|2n)_k$ and $osp(2r+1|2n)_k$ at an arbitrary level $k$.
The free field representations of the corresponding energy-momentum tensors and
screening currents of the first kind are also presented.
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Skullcandy Method In-Ear Sweat Resistant Sport headphones
Very cute and I like the fit. Not as good as the ink'd headphones I normally use. The sound in these is not a full or rich sounding. Should be fine for work or the gym, but I will go back to the ink'd style once these stop working.
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The MiniBooNE collaboration has reported an excess of $460.5\pm 95.8$
electron-like events ($4.8\sigma$). We propose an explanation of these events
in terms of a sterile neutrino decaying into a photon and a light neutrino. The
sterile neutrino has a mass around 250 MeV and it is produced from kaon decays
in the proton beam target via mixing with the muon or the electron in the range
$10^{-11} \lesssim |U_{\ell 4}|^2 \lesssim 10^{-7}$ ($\ell = e,\mu$). The model
can be tested by considering the time distribution of the events in MiniBooNE
and by looking for single-photon events in running or upcoming neutrino
experiments, in particular by the suite of liquid argon detectors in the
short-baseline neutrino program at Fermilab.
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Supervised depth estimation has achieved high accuracy due to the advanced
deep network architectures. Since the groundtruth depth labels are hard to
obtain, recent methods try to learn depth estimation networks in an
unsupervised way by exploring unsupervised cues, which are effective but less
reliable than true labels. An emerging way to resolve this dilemma is to
transfer knowledge from synthetic images with ground truth depth via domain
adaptation techniques. However, these approaches overlook specific geometric
structure of the natural images in the target domain (i.e., real data), which
is important for high-performing depth prediction. Motivated by the
observation, we propose a geometry-aware symmetric domain adaptation framework
(GASDA) to explore the labels in the synthetic data and epipolar geometry in
the real data jointly. Moreover, by training two image style translators and
depth estimators symmetrically in an end-to-end network, our model achieves
better image style transfer and generates high-quality depth maps. The
experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method and
comparable performance against the state-of-the-art. Code will be publicly
available at: https://github.com/sshan-zhao/GASDA.
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The default assumption of early universe cosmology is that the
postinflationary universe was radiation dominated until it was about 47000
years old. Direct evidence for the radiation dominated epoch extends back until
nucleosynthesis, which began during the first second. However there are
theoretical reasons to prefer a period of earlier matter domination, prior to
nucleosynthesis, e.g. due to late decaying massive particles needed to explain
baryogenesis. Axion cosmology is quantitatively affected by an early period of
matter domination, with a different axion mass range preferred and greater
inhomogeneity produced on small scales. In this work we show that such
increased inhomogeneity can lead to the formation of axion miniclusters in
axion parameter ranges that are different from those usually assumed. If the
reheating temperature is below $58$ MeV, axion miniclusters can form even if
the axion field is present during inflation and has been previously
homogenized. The upper bound on the typical initial axion minicluster mass is
raised from $10^{-10} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{-7} M_{\odot}$, where $M_{\odot}$ is a
solar mass. These results may have consequences for indirect detection of axion
miniclusters, and could conceivably probe the thermal history of the universe
before nucleosynthesis.
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Dreyfuss plays a mob boss who lost his mind, but now he's "fixed." Lane is his girl who's been messing around with his Number One (Goldblum), who's supposed to have something going with Lane's sister (Barkin).<br /><br />With what anyone could consider an all-star supporting cast (Burt Reynolds, Gabriel Byrne, Kyle MacLachlan and even an appearance by Richard Pryor) can't help this plot, as Dreyfuss proves he's not "fixed" and tries to kill just about everyone in sight.<br /><br />You know, it's not like you didn't know what was coming. The first ten minutes were nothing but guys trying to tell Goldblum what was in store for him when Dreyfuss gets out, but I'll save you all the trouble: skip this movie.<br /><br />The actual reason I picked this movie is because I've been on a Diane Lane kick lately and have been trying to see all her movies. The real let-down for me wasn't just the terrible plot, but also the fact that she doesn't show up until the last fifteen minutes of the movie (although we hear about her all through the movie). Even being a fan of over half of the cast can't help me enjoy this film. The parts where the suspense was supposed to mount found me laughing at what was actually going on.<br /><br />3 out of 10 stars.
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...but i expected better from Caroline Munro. She's done some good films, and i was hoping this would be just as good. as a matter of fact, she and this other blonde girl character (the girl who got electrocuted i think) were the only two out of the 8-11 actors who could act. this film has the worst acting i've ever seen. almost as bad as 'Psycho' (1998). the really dumb part was when the woman was in the shower and marty rigged it to pour battery acid in there. she starts screaming, and her scream is probably the most annoying sound in the whole world. she attempts to get out, but "accidentally" falls back in. i will admit, the violence and story is good, along with harry manfredini's music, but the acting could've been a LOT better. there were two other characters, frank and joe. i don't know about you, but they bare a strange resemblance to dan akyroyd. also, when they find that woman's fried corpse in the bathtub, you would think they'd be screaming and barfing. No. Caroline Munro and the blonde woman are the only ones who react. Frank and Joe barely show any signs of fear or disgust. i don't know about you, but i know that if i saw a fried skeleton of one of my best friends, i'd puke. also, when joe starts saying stuff like "what happened to marty was an accident, it wasn't our fault." he says it like his nervous or scared but barely shows any facial expressions. then the blonde girl starts crying and says "i'm scared frank!". and she grabs joe. i guess the actress really didn't know which guy was which. the film's ending is the most confusing thing i ever saw. more confusing than the climax of "jaws: the revenge". all the eight friends end up dead, marty kills them all, but then, you see something that looks like him being chased by their rotted corpses, and then it just cuts to marty still in the hospital from the accident, and then when the film ends, marty dresses up as a nurse trying to sedate him, but then we see that marty has gotten into her clothes or somethin like that kills a doctor, and the film ends with marty peeling skin off his face. which leads me to this next question. WHAT WAS THE WRITER ON WHEN HE CAME UP WITH THAT?!?!?!?! did he actually expect people to understand just what the hell happened?? the ending left me so confused. were the characters still alive? is marty still holding a grudge? did the events we just see not happen yet or not at all? i don't know. overall, this movie was pretty dumb. the acting sucked, the music was okay, the story was pretty decent (except for the ending). basically, this is just one of your average 80s teen slasher flicks. see it only for harry manfredini and caroline munro. 2/10<br /><br />P.S. - Simon Scuddamore (Marty) committed suicide shortly after the film's release from intentional drug abuse. i guess he was the only person who knew this film was what it really was. A PILE OF SH**
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Her donations from all those Arab nations, who are so sensitive to women's issues, were accepted without reservation from Hillary. Along with some very nice bottles of 'sour grapes', I might imagine. I guess if she drinks enough of those, it might take the edge off the fact she just accepted donations from men who won't even let a woman drive a car, let alone run for President.
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Multiscale simulation is a key research tool for the quest for new permanent
magnets. Starting with first principles methods, a sequence of simulation
methods can be applied to calculate the maximum possible coercive field and
expected energy density product of a magnet made from a novel magnetic material
composition. Fe-rich magnetic phases suitable for permanent magnets can be
found by adaptive genetic algorithms. The intrinsic properties computed by ab
initio simulations are used as input for micromagnetic simulations of the
hysteresis properties of permanent magnets with realistic structure. Using
machine learning techniques, the magnet's structure can be optimized so that
the upper limits for coercivity and energy density product for a given phase
can be estimated. Structure property relations of synthetic permanent magnets
were computed for several candidate hard magnetic phases. The following pairs
(coercive field (T), energy density product (kJ/m3)) were obtained for
Fe3Sn0.75Sb0.25: (0.49, 290), L10 FeNi: (1, 400), CoFe6Ta: (0.87, 425), and
MnAl: (0.53, 80).
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In this paper, we examine how far a polynomial in $\mathbb{F}_2[x]$ can be
from a squarefree polynomial. For any $\epsilon>0$, we prove that for any
polynomial $f(x)\in\mathbb{F}_2[x]$ with degree $n$, there exists a squarefree
polynomial $g(x)\in\mathbb{F}_2[x]$ such that $\mathrm{deg} (g) \le n$ and
$L_{2}(f-g)<(\ln n)^{2\ln(2)+\epsilon}$ (where $L_{2}$ is a norm to be
defined). As a consequence, the analogous result holds for polynomials $f(x)$
and $g(x)$ in $\mathbb{Z}[x]$.
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The resonant activation effect (RA) has been well studied in different ways
during the last two decades. It consists in the presence of a minimum in the
mean time spent by a Brownian particle to exit from a potential well in the
presence of a fluctuating external force, as a function of the mean frequency
(or the correlation time) of the latter. This work studies the role played by
the asymmetry of a piecewise linear potential in the RA effect, and, in
general, the behavior of the mean first passage time and the mean velocity of
the particle crossing through the potential barrier. A strong dependence on the
asymmetry of the potential has been found which can be put in relationship with
the current in the ratchet whose the potential here used is an elementary
module. In this case a current reversal as a function of the frequency of the
switching potential occurs. Comparison of the calculations with the
Doering-Gadua model have been performed, as well as comparison with smooth
symmetrical potentials, by checking for the robustness of the resonant
correlation time. The calculations have been done by solving numerically the
Langevin equation in the presence of an uncorrelated Gaussian noise. The
resonant mean first passage times show an unexpected behavior as a function of
the thermal noise intensity. The related curves present for the different
symmetries an unexpected inversion of their relative behavior beyond a certain
threshold value of the noise. This means that the current reversal can only
occur for weak noise intensities, lower than that threshold value.
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If you were in any way familiar with the current DA, you would know about all of the work she has done to try and keep people out of prison. This includes working on mental health issues and lobbying to keep the State Hospital in Junction City open, and the establishment of Drug Court that emphasizes treatment. The statistics of those who complete drug court are readily avaiable.
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The manipulation of the helical edge states of two-dimensional topological
insulators is crucial for the development of technological applications.
Recently, an important step forward, namely, the experimental realization of a
quantum point contact between helical edges, has been accomplished. We
theoretically predict that such a quantum point contact, in the presence of a
time periodic applied electric field, is characterized by a topological quantum
phase transition in the Floquet spectrum. Moreover, we show that it is possible
to detect this dynamical topological quantum phase transition by a bare
conductance measurements.
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We present an efficient scheme to implement a gray optical molasses for
sub-Doppler cooling of $^{6}$Li atoms with minimum experimental overhead. To
integrate the $D_1$ light for the gray molasses (GM) cooling into the same
optical setup that is used for the $D_2$ light for a standard magneto-optical
trap (MOT), we rapidly switch the injection seeding of a slave laser between
the $D_2$ and $D_1$ light sources. Switching times as short as
$30\,\mu\textrm{s}$ can be achieved, inferred from monitor optical beat
signals. The resulting low-intensity molasses cools a sample of $N=9\times10^8$
atoms to about $60\,\mu\textrm{K}$. A maximum phase-space density of
$\rho=1.2\times10^{-5}$ is observed. On the same setup, the performance of the
GM is compared to that of narrow-line cooling in a UV MOT, following the
procedure in Sebastian et al. (2014). Further, we compare the production of a
degenerate Fermi gas using both methods. Loading an optical dipole trap from
the gray molasses yields a quantum degenerate sample with $3.3\times10^5$
atoms, while loading from the denser UV MOT yields $2.4\times10^6$ atoms. Where
the highest atom numbers are not a priority this implementation of the gray
molasses technique yields sufficiently large samples at a comparatively low
technical effort.
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Session types describe the structure of communications implemented by
channels. In particular, they prescribe the sequence of communications, whether
they are input or output actions, and the type of value exchanged. Crucial to
any language with session types is the notion of linearity, which is essential
to ensure that channels exhibit the behaviour prescribed by their type without
interference in the presence of concurrency. In this work we relax the
condition of linearity to that of affinity, by which channels exhibit at most
the behaviour prescribed by their types. This more liberal setting allows us to
incorporate an elegant error handling mechanism which simplifies and improves
related works on exceptions. Moreover, our treatment does not affect the
progress properties of the language: sessions never get stuck.
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Many wireless communications systems found in aircraft lack standard security
mechanisms, leaving them fundamentally vulnerable to attack. With affordable
software-defined radios available, a novel threat has emerged, allowing a wide
range of attackers to easily interfere with wireless avionic systems. Whilst
these vulnerabilities are known, concrete attacks that exploit them are still
novel and not yet well understood. This is true in particular with regards to
their kinetic impact on the handling of the attacked aircraft and consequently
its safety.
To investigate this, we invited 30 Airbus A320 type-rated pilots to fly
simulator scenarios in which they were subjected to attacks on their avionics.
We implement and analyse novel wireless attacks on three safety-related
systems: Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), Ground Proximity Warning
System (GPWS) and the Instrument Landing System (ILS).
We found that all three analysed attack scenarios created significant control
impact and cost of disruption through turnarounds, avoidance manoeuvres, and
diversions. They further increased workload, distrust in the affected system,
and in 38% of cases caused the attacked safety system to be switched off
entirely. All pilots felt the scenarios were useful, with 93.3% feeling that
simulator training for wireless attacks could be valuable.
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One of the more interesting problems in my experience in the Church is the utter lack of acknowledgment of women who have miscarried, except for some gossip and nosiness from some people, and a desire to see it investigated from folks like R&R. Not even so much as a prayer in the Prayers of the Faithful except about once in all the parishes I've been a part of. And that after a request.
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Don’t remove the colored piece.
Don’t remove the plastic colored piece from the lid or it won’t reattach. Unfortunately my mother-in-law did just that when attempting to be helpful in the kitchen, and now the piece won’t reattach fully. I fully regret paying extra for the colored lid. I thought it would be fun for my son since he loves blue and nice for if we got more to have different colors for the kids. Now I just feel angry every time I see it when making my son’s lunch.
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Collective modes in two-dimensional electron fluids show an interesting
response to a background carrier flow. Surface plasmons propagating on top of a
flowing Fermi liquid acquire a non-reciprocal character manifest in a $\pm k$
asymmetry of mode dispersion. The nonreciprocity arises due to Fermi surface
polarization by the flow. The flow-induced interactions between quasiparticles
make collective modes of the system uniquely sensitive to subtle "motional"
Fermi-liquid effects. The flow-induced Doppler-type frequency shift of plasmon
resonances, arising due to electron interactions, can strongly deviate from the
classical value. This opens a possibility to directly probe motional
Fermi-liquid effects in plasmonic near-field imaging experiments.
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Molecular dynamics (MD) has become a powerful tool for studying biophysical
systems, due to increasing computational power and availability of software.
Although MD has made many contributions to better understanding these complex
biophysical systems, there remain methodological difficulties to be surmounted.
First, how to make the deluge of data generated in running even a microsecond
long MD simulation human comprehensible. Second, how to efficiently sample the
underlying free energy surface and kinetics. In this short perspective, we
summarize machine learning based ideas that are solving both of these
limitations, with a focus on their key theoretical underpinnings and remaining
challenges.
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