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The film had many fundamental values of family and love. It expressed human emotion and was an inspiring story. The script was clear( it was very easy to understand making it perfect for children)and was enjoyable and humorous at times. There were a few charged symbols to look for. The cinematography was acceptable. There was no sense of experimentation that a lot of cinematographers have been doing today(which quiet frankly is getting a little warn out). It was plainly filmed but had a nice soft quality to it. Although editing could have been done better I thought it was a nice movie for a family to enjoy. And the organization of information was just thrown at you which was something I didn't like either but in all it was a good movie.
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COVID-19 has had considerable global impact, but in sub-Saharan Africa is one of several infectious disease priorities. Prioritization is normally guided by disease burden, but the highly age-dependent nature of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases makes comparisons challenging unless considered through metrics that incorporate life years lost and time lived in adverse health. We therefore compared 2020 mortality and Disability-Adjusted Life Years lost (DALYs lost) estimates for malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan African populations with 12+ months of COVID-19 burden (up to end March 2021), applying known age-related mortality to United Nations estimates of age structure. We further compared exacerbations of disease burden predicted from the COVID-19 public health response. Data was derived from public sources, predicted exacerbations derived from those published by international agencies. For sub-Saharan African populations north of South Africa, recorded COVID-19 DALYs lost in 2020 was 3.7%, 2.3%, and 2.4% of those estimated for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria respectively. Predicted exacerbations of these comparator diseases were greater than the estimated COVID-19 burden. Including South Africa and Lesotho, COVID-19 DALYs lost were <12% of those for comparator diseases and dominated by them in all age groups below 65 years. The analysis suggests a relatively low impact from COVID-19. While all four epidemics continue, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria remain far greater health priorities based on disease burden. Resource diversion to COVID-19 therefore runs a high risk of increasing the overall disease burden and causing net harm, further increasing global inequities in health and life expectancy.
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Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) has committed an unspeakable crime, the stabbing of the retarded younger brother of his ex-girlfriend Becky (Jena Malone). No one, least of all Leland himself, can explain why he's done what he's done, whether the act was premeditated or spontaneous, done out of hatred or love.<br /><br />In the detention center, Leland meets Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle), a onetime novel writer who sees in Leland's case a second opportunity. But Pearl also wants to understand Leland's motivation and takes him under his wing as a confidante in the prison.<br /><br />The film jumps from the past to the present several times, often allowing the past to act as a context to the present, and vice versa. Writer/director Matthew Ryan Hodge shows how Leland's crime - and the events leading up to it - affect the people in his life, from Becky to her family to Leland's mother (Lena Olin) and estranged father (Kevin Spacey) to Allen (Chris Klein), a young man who is staying with Becky's family after the death of his own mother.<br /><br />The chief asset in the movie is Gosling, who is perfectly cast as the 15-year-old pseudopsychopath. Like Bartleby the Scrivener, Gosling's Leland just exists; he shows little emotion during the film, but instead his expressions belie an ocean of guilt, sadness, love, and rage.<br /><br />Each of the main actors offered perhaps their best work to date, save Spacey (who's not exactly a novice). Special praise is due to Malone and Klein, two young performers who are better known for lighthearted comedy fare than the heavy drama of this movie.<br /><br />Another huge benefit in terms of the story is that none of the characters is flawless; none are heroes out to save the day. This is simply not a black-and-white movie.
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We study perturbation theory for large-scale structure in the most general
scalar-tensor theories propagating a single scalar degree of freedom, which
include Horndeski theories and beyond. We model the parameter space using the
effective field theory of dark energy. For Horndeski theories, the
gravitational field and fluid equations are invariant under a combination of
time-dependent transformations of the coordinates and fields. This symmetry
allows one to construct a physical adiabatic mode which fixes the
perturbation-theory kernels in the squeezed limit and ensures that the
well-known consistency relations for large-scale structure, originally derived
in general relativity, hold in modified gravity as well. For theories beyond
Horndeski, instead, one generally cannot construct such an adiabatic mode.
Because of this, the perturbation-theory kernels are modified in the squeezed
limit and the consistency relations for large-scale structure do not hold. We
show, however, that the modification of the squeezed limit depends only on the
linear theory. We investigate the observational consequences of this violation
by computing the matter bispectrum. In the squeezed limit, the largest effect
is expected when considering the cross-correlation between different tracers.
Moreover, the individual contributions to the 1-loop matter power spectrum do
not cancel in the infrared limit of the momentum integral, modifying the power
spectrum on non-linear scales.
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Using an intuitive concept of what constitutes a meaningful community, a
novel metric is formulated for detecting non-overlapping communities in
undirected, weighted heterogeneous networks. This metric, modularity density,
is shown to be superior to the versions of modularity density in present
literature. Compared to the previous versions of modularity density,
maximization of our metric is proven to be free from bias and better detect
weakly-separated communities particularly in heterogeneous networks. In
addition to these characteristics, the computational running time of our
modularity density is found to be on par or faster than that of the previous
variants. Our findings further reveal that community detection by maximization
of our metric is mathematically related to partitioning a network by
minimization of the normalized cut criterion.
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Ordering no good from over seas
I will never buy anything from here again I bought 1 and decided to buy 2 more the other did not come I contacted the seller no response no refund or nothing. I don’t know but it seem like it’s a lot of problems with orders coming from China that takes to long or something happen to your order I it’s been months now did not hear nothing from them at all
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We present detailed radiative transfer spectral synthesis models for the Iron
Low Ionization Broad Absorption Line (FeLoBAL) active galactic nuclei (AGN)
FIRST J121442.3+280329 and ISO J005645.1-273816. Detailed NLTE spectral
synthesis with a spherically symmetric outflow reproduces the observed spectra
very well across a large wavelength range. While exact spherical symmetry is
probably not required, our model fits are of high quality and thus very large
covering fractions are strongly implied by our results. We constrain the
kinetic energy and mass in the ejecta and discuss their implications on the
accretion rate. Our results support the idea that FeLoBALs may be an
evolutionary stage in the development of more ``ordinary'' QSOs.
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What a terrible movie! It represents perfectly the state of degenerateness of French society, where the most elementary respect for wholesome values and traditions has completely disappeared. The plot is nonsensical, the movie is not funny at all and the characters are completely shallow and uninteresting. To say the least, the direction and the cinematography are very poor and uninspired. Catherine Deneuve is as bad an actress as she always was, even when she was directed by Bunuel in Belle De Jour. The rest of the usually good cast (Vincent Lindon, Line Renaud, Jean Yanne) seem completely lost in an ocean of vulgarity, platitudes and restlessness. I cannot help to draw a parallel with the wonderful James Ivory's "Le Divorce", with its thoughtful depiction of French and American mores, its superlative cinematography and stellar cast put to good use. Having watched "Le Divorce" you can feel a kind of empathy with the French, regardless of their foibles. "Belle-Maman" leaves you with only a nauseated contempt for its morally bankrupt and clueless protagonists.
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Flawlessly directed, written, performed, and filmed, this quiet and unpretentious Danish film is an example of cinema at its best, and if a person exists who can watch BABETTE'S FEAST without being touched at a very fundamental level, they are a person I do not care to know.<br /><br />The story is quite simple. In the 1800s, two elderly maiden ladies (Birgitte Federspiel and Bodil Kjer) reside in remote Jutland, where they have sacrificed their lives, romantic possibilities, and personal happiness in order to continue their long-dead father's religious ministry to the small flock he served. One of the women's youthful admirers sends to them a Frenchwoman, Babette (Stéphane Audran), whose husband and son have been killed in France and who has fled her homeland lest she meet the same fate. Although they do not really require her services, the sisters engage her as maid and cook--and as the years pass her cleverness and tireless efforts on their behalf enables the aging congregation to remain together and the sisters to live in more comfort than they had imagined; indeed, the entire village admires and depends upon her.<br /><br />One day, however, Babette receives a letter: she has won a lottery and is now, by village standards, a wealthy woman. Knowing that her new wealth will mean her return to France, the sisters grant her wish that she be allowed to prepare a truly French meal for them and the members of their tiny congregation. The meal and the evening it is served is indeed a night to remember--but not for reasons that might be expected, for Babette's feast proves to be food for both body and soul, and is ultimately her gift of love to the women who took her in and the villagers who have been so kind to her.<br /><br />The film is extraordinary in every way, meticulous in detail yet not overpowering in its presentation of them. As the film progresses, we come to love the characters in both their simple devotion to God and their all-too-human frailties, and the scenes in which Babette prepares her feast and in which the meal is consumed are powerful, beautiful, and incredibly memorable. There have been several films that have used food as a metaphor for love, but none approach the simple artistry and beauty of BABETTE'S FEAST, which reminds us of all the good things about humanity and which proves food for both body and soul. Highly, highly recommended.<br /><br />Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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We show that a tensor product of nonexceptional type Kirillov--Reshetikhin
(KR) crystals is isomorphic to a direct sum of Demazure crystals; we do this in
the mixed level case and without the perfectness assumption, thus generalizing
a result of Naoi. We use this result to show that, given two tensor products of
such KR crystals with the same maximal weight, after removing certain
$0$-arrows, the two connected components containing the minimal/maximal
elements are isomorphic. Based on the latter fact, we reduce a tensor product
of higher level perfect KR crystals to one of single-column KR crystals, which
allows us to use the uniform models available in the literature in the latter
case. We also use our results to give a combinatorial interpretation of the
Q-system relations. Our results are conjectured to extend to the exceptional
types.
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Using large-scale Monte Carlo calculations, we consider strongly disordered
Heisenberg models on a cubic lattice with missing sites (as in diluted magnetic
semiconductors such as Ga_{1-x}Mn_{x}As). For disorder ranging from weak to
strong levels of dilution, we identify Curie temperatures and calculate the
critical exponents nu, gamma, eta, and beta finding, per the Harris criterion,
good agreement with critical indices for the pure Heisenberg model where there
is no disorder component. Moreover, we find that thermodynamic quantities (e.g.
the second moment of the magnetization per spin) self average at the
ferromagnetic transition temperature with relative fluctuations tending to zero
with increasing system size. We directly calculate effective critical exponents
for T > T_{c}, yielding values which may differ significantly from the critical
indices for the pure system, especially in the presence of strong disorder.
Ultimately, the difference is only apparent, and eventually disappears when T
is very close to T_{c}.
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A machine learning technique with two-dimension convolutional neural network
is proposed for detecting exoplanet transits. To test this new method, five
different types of deep learning models with or without folding are constructed
and studied. The light curves of the Kepler Data Release 25 are employed as the
input of these models. The accuracy, reliability, and completeness are
determined and their performances are compared. These results indicate that a
combination of two-dimension convolutional neural network with folding would be
an excellent choice for the future transit analysis.
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Total correlation (`TC') and dual total correlation (`DTC') are two classical
ways to quantify the correlation among an $n$-tuple of random variables. They
both reduce to mutual information when $n=2$.
The first part of this paper sets up the theory of TC and DTC for general
random variables, not necessarily finite-valued. This generality has not been
exposed in the literature before.
The second part considers the structural implications when a joint
distribution $\mu$ has small TC or DTC. If $\mathrm{TC}(\mu) = o(n)$, then
$\mu$ is close to a product measure according to a suitable transportation
metric: this follows directly from Marton's classical transportation-entropy
inequality. If $\mathrm{DTC}(\mu) = o(n)$, then the structural consequence is
more complicated: $\mu$ is a mixture of a controlled number of terms, most of
them close to product measures in the transportation metric. This is the main
new result of the paper.
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Soldiers and police officers conducting checks at a roadblock during the movement control order (MCO) in Kuala Lumpur March 29, 2020. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 — Putrajaya has announced today an enhanced movement control order (EMCO) in seven villages in Hulu Langat, after 71 positive cases were identified among 274 residents of a tahfiz school there.
The two-week EMCO effective this midnight will involve the areas of Batu 21 to Batu 24 in Sungai Lui, involving 3,918 residents from 700 households, Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said today.
“Taking into account the high total cases in the school, the government with the advice of the Health Minister has decided to implement an EMCO, the second after Simpang Renggam,” Ismail Sabri said.
He was referring to the Maahad Tahfiz An-Nabawiyyah in Sungai Lui, where students learn Quran memorisation.
The seven villages comprise of five Malay-majority villages, and two Orang Asli villages.
Last week, Putrajaya announced the EMCO in two areas in Simpang Renggam after recording 61 positive cases of Covid-19 there, out of 83 in Kluang.
During the order, all local and visitors in the areas are subject to house curfew, while non-locals are not allowed in with all entry points blocked.
In addition, all business activities must halt during the period.
Any essential food item will be distributed by the Social Welfare Department. A medical base will also be set up there.
Police officers, Armed Forces, Civil Defence Force, and People’s Volunteer Corps (RELA) personnel will be stationed there to enforce the order.
Earlier today, Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has not ruled out the possibility of EMCO in more areas in Selangor, as the state had a high number of Covid-19 cases in a number of areas.
Yesterday, Malay Mail reported that Kepong and Klang were now officially red zones or Covid-19 hotspots with more than 40 cases each, and Lembah Pantai continued to record the highest number of Covid-19 patients while Hulu Langat had overtaken Petaling Jaya in terms of Covid-19 case numbers.
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"Some said romantic relationships fell apart when their partners found out they could not get pregnant again." Coercion is a strong term - if a surgery was performed in this way, that is troubling. Still, it sounds like these women had had multiple births. How many children had they had before tubal ligation was suggested? Were their children well cared for at home? In most families, parents have to consider whether they have the maturity and finances to provide security and love for their children. Multiple pregnancies should not be the measure of a 'romantic relationship' because romances tend not to last, and they should never form the only foundation for a pregnancy or series of pregnancies in any society. It's time for our society & governments to be clear about the responsibilities that go into raising children. Parents have to consider how many children they can afford - by extension, how many can governments afford, relying on the tax base? Babies are not mere 'after-glow'.
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The aim of this study is to provide a perspective to help understand the
singular average operator over polynomial hypersurfaces. In particular, this
perspective will provide brevity and the possibility of generalizing previous
results dealing with the fundamental problem of determining the precise $L^p$
regularity enhancement for the average operators. In previous studies dealing
with polynomials, the Newton polyhedron of a polynomial has been utilized to
observe dominant monomials. In this study, we go further by discussing the
involvements of other monomials in detail, by introducing several geometric
values on the Newton polyhedron.
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Plates came broken and bar was bent over and it look they were used!
One of the plates came broken and the bar was bent over, the product also look like it was used it had a piece of gum in one of the plates, I requested a refund twice and never heard back from the seller, please don't buy from this seller, is by far the worst thing I have ever bought!
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Announcing The Public Domain Game Jam: Gaming Like It's 1924!
from the year-two dept
Gaming Like It's 1924: The Newly Public Domain Game Jam
Happy New Years, everyone. Last year, for the very first time in two decades, the US actually allowed some works to enter the public domain. This represented the end of an era in which copyright maximalist lobbyists had been able to regularly extend copyright terms each year to prevent any new works from entering the public domain. However, the backlash to such practices had become so vocal, and the evidence for why such term extensions were necessary had become so non-existent, that they didn't even make any serious attempt to extend them again, leading works from 1923 to actually enter the public domain. Well, now it's 2020, and works from 1924 have entered the public domain.
Last year to celebrate, we held our very first public domain game jam, asking people to create both analog and digital games utilizing newly public domain works. It was a great success with over 30 entries, including some really amazing winners.
This year, we're doing it again, with the Gaming Like It's 1924 public domain game jam. The rules are basically the same as last year. For the entire month of January, you can submit your digital or analog games (specific rules are at the link) based on some of the newly public domain works from 1924. If you're looking for ideas on what works are there, Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has an excellent list and LifeHacker has called out some highlights as well.
Once again, we're offering up prizes (with even more choices this year) in a variety of categories: best analog game, best digital game, best adaptation of a 1924 work, best remixing of multiple sources, best "deep cut," and best visuals. We also have a wonderful and diverse judging panel, that is a mix of gaming and copyright experts (and a few who qualify as both!).
You certainly don't need to follow the path of those who won last year, but if you want, you should check out last year's winners (and all the other submissions as well) to get some ideas. The contest is open for the entire month of January, with judging in early February. We hope you'll consider entering and help demonstrate the value of a robust public domain, and the ability to build on those earlier creative works.
Filed Under: 1924, analog games, copyright, game jam, games, public domain, video games
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In this work we present a generalized Laplace method for a formal, simple,
quasi-classical, determination of the outer and inner horizon radius of
Kerr-Newman black hole. We consider classical gravitational interaction between
a thin, with homogeneously distributed mass and electric charge, spherical
(black) shell and a probe particle. Also, we use relativistic equivalence
principle. Finally we suppose that probe particle propagates radially to shell
with speed of light while tangentially it rotates in common with shell, so that
total energy of a probe particle equals zero.
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OK this movie was by far worse then the first one and the first one sucked! The zombie make up was extremely fake! The acting is very poor! And it doesn't really follow the first one! While watching this I kept thinking wow the first one is a masterpiece compared to this. I would say catch it on TV, Don't spend your money on it! Its not the worst movie i've ever seen but its on the list. I started watching it last night and fell asleep so i watched it today and almost fell asleep again! The plot was pointless, I mean i get the fact that a small military group are sent on a mission to get the blood of the lead zombie and bring it back so they can use it to save lives and stop zombies but they made it where you wanted everyone to die. They made plenty of bad guys who really were just annoying. If you ask me this was a rip off of resident evil and not a good rip off either. The plot could have made it if the acting was good and if they actually made you feel scared to see whats behind the corner. With these zombies my grandma could have went in that building and survived! out of a 1-10 i give it a 2.
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When NHS went in at the county site, the devastation of the bike paths that connect people/shops north and south of the river via the nearby Ferry St. Bridge/Coburg Rd became intolerable. It went from a couple of nuisance trolls to an entire community that hangs on to the NHS facility. Since they can't rely on openly drinking and drugging at NHS, they take over the bike path underpasses for these activities. The result is that very few people, and essentially no lone females, will ride a bike through there any longer. It is not a coincidence that Eugene has hemorhaged 37% of its cyclists over the most recent five year reporting period while we have added these camps and relaxed all enforcement on illegal camping and public drinking/drugging.
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The AdS/CFT correspondence is used to describe five-dimensional cosmology
with a big crunch singularity in terms of super-Yang-Mills theory on R times
S^3 deformed by a potential which is unbounded below. Classically, a Higgs
field in the dual theory rolls to infinity in finite time. But since the S^3 is
finite, the unstable mode spreads quantum mechanically and the singularity is
resolved when self-adjoint boundary conditions are imposed at infinity.
Asymptotic freedom of the coupling governing the instability gives us
computational control and the quantum spreading provides a UV cutoff on
particle creation. The bulk interpretation of our result is a quantum
transition from a big crunch to a big bang. An intriguing consequence of the
near scale-invariance of the dual theory is that a nearly scale-invariant
spectrum of stress-energy perturbations is automatically generated in the
boundary theory. We comment on implications for more realistic cosmologies.
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People don't seem to realize that thanks to interest rates at generational lows and foreign speculation and money laundering, Canada has had the biggest and longest bull run in housing in many people's lifetimes. The long term average rate of real estate appreciation has historically been something like 2-3%/ year. In Vancouver and TOronto, housing is severely overvalued and anyone who bought in the last few years if they expect things to appreciate like they have in the past 10 years, I think they are in for a big shock. Average house prices in these cities have far exceeded even average professional salaries, so if prices continue to climb, you have to ask yourself who will be living in these cities. Vancouver has already changed for the worst, and it looks as though TO is headed in that direction.
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Trapped matter-wave interferometers (TMIs) present a platform for precision
sensing within a compact apparatus, extending coherence time by repeated
traversal of a confining potential. However, imperfections in this potential
can introduce unwanted systematic effects, particularly when combined with
errors in the associated beamsplitter operations. This can affect both the
interferometer phase and visibility, and can make the performance more
sensitive to other experimental imperfections. I examine the character and
degree of these systematic effects, in particular within the context of 2D TMIs
applicable for rotation sensing. I show that current experimental control can
enable these interferometers to operate in a regime robust against experimental
imperfections.
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Out of the many films I've seen, Tommy Boy is a rare film where I can watch it over and over and it's still funny. David Spade and the late Chris Farley do their best in this film and is a must-see by anyone who's a fan of the Spade-Farley duo.
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The first phase of a heavy quark program based on twisted mass valence quarks
has been presented at last years's lattice conference. The CLS $N_f=2+1$
ensembles were used for their fine lattice spacing, while twisting the masses
is expected to reduce discretisation errors even further and allow for a fully
relativistic calculation. We present our strategy and preliminary results on
three point functions, corresponding to $D\to K$ and $D\to\pi$ semileptonic
decays. The form factors for $m_u=m_d=m_s$ quark masses obtained as a first
step are shown here to be at the percent level in statistical precision at
$q^2=0$.
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Continuous-time autoregressive moving average (CARMA) process driven by
simple semi-L\'evy process has periodically correlated property with many
potential application in finance. In this paper, we study on the estimation of
the parameters of the simple semi-L\'evy CARMA (SSLCARMA) process based on the
Kalman recursion technique. We implement this method in conjunction with the
state-space representation of the associated process. The accuracy of
estimation procedure is assessed in a simulated study. We fit a SSLCARMA(2,1)
process to intraday realized volatility of Dow Jones Industrial Average data.
Finally, We show that this process provides better in-sample forecasts of these
data than the L\'evy driven CARMA process after de-seasonalized them.
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After just finishing the book the same day I watched the movie, I knew what was supposed to happen. I had high expectations of the movie, because of the rating. The only reason I give this movie a 2 out of 10 stars is that it was alright trying to be a movie. I have a couple main points for not liking this movie.<br /><br />********** SPOILERS **********<br /><br />1. The casting. Jack Nicholson barely fits into Jack Torrence's character. Also, I would have NEVER picked Shelly Duvall for Wendy. I pictured Wendy much differently. I can see why they picked Jack Nicholson though, the grin, the pointy eyebrows, but he's not supposed to really look 'evil'. He's supposed to look normal, and he turns evil. Also, they make one of the worst movie couples. Danny was alright, he needed more life though. He acted way to droney.<br /><br />2. The screenplay. They cut out so many things that were in the book, and added things. Some of the things that were in the book that I was looking forward to in the movie were either deleted, changed, or handled wrongly. Some of the things that were in the book that I was looking forward to seeing (the hedge animals, the roque mallet, the elevator) were not in the movie, and it was 2 and half hours!! I was extremely irritated.<br /><br />3. The Ending. The ending was changed completly, Halorann died, Jack froze to death, Wendy never got hurt...The Overlook didn't blow up. The Ending was so cool in the book, and the movie messed it up so horribly, I was apalled. Hallorann was never supposed to die, but Jack killed him with an ax. If they wanted to kill him, at least have Jack use a roque mallet. You never even saw a roque mallet during the whole movie.<br /><br />There are other things that I didn't like about the movie, but there are things that were all right. The camera angels were cool, the blood coming out of the elevator (didn't happen in the book) was cool, but maybe I was too irritated that the movie didn't go with the book, to try to be scared at all. I reccomend reading the book, before you see this movie. I applaud Stephen King for actually agreeing to sign a contract to not dis Stanley Kubrik any more. I would never have done that, I would have taken all the rights I could get to yell at him all day. I can't wait to see the 6 hour version, at least it has the hedge animals.<br /><br />Rating: 2/10
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A stupid movie, with a stupid plot. Feels like they threw every imaginable cliché in a blender. I especially "Liked" the part, where two teenage girls gets the french president to clean the water. Because we all know how dedicated America is to conservation of the environment. Kyoto, anyone?? And the french chef, who has apparently never seen or tasted a hamburger... This is why people think Americans have no culture. That, and the fact that we meet your kids when they come to Europe to "see the world" (i.e. eat at McDonalds in foreign capitals) They are not as dumb as the two ditsy preteens in this movie, but they have just about the same amount of cultural enlightenment and good manners.
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High grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most common and aggressive type of ovarian cancer. Platinum resistance is a common occurrence in HGSOC and a main cause of tumor relapse resulting in high patient mortality rates. Recurrent OC is enriched in aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH)+ ovarian cancer stem cells (OCSCs), which are resistant to platinum agents. We demonstrated that acute platinum treatment induced a DNA damage-dependent decrease in BRCA1 levels. In a parallel response associated with G2/M arrest, platinum treatment also induced an increase in expression of NAMPT, the rate limiting regulator of NAD+ production from the salvage pathway, and levels of NAD+, the cofactor required for ALDH activity. Concurrent inhibition of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) and NAMPT synergistically abrogated the platinum-induced increase in OCSCs. Combining pharmacological inhibitors of DNMT and NAMPT with carboplatin reduced tumorigenesis and OCSC percentage in vivo. We conclude that both epigenetic and metabolic alterations lead to platinum induced OCSC enrichment, providing preclinical evidence that in the neoadjuvant setting, combining DNMT and NAMPT inhibitors with platinum has the potential to reduce OC recurrence and avert the development of platinum resistance.
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We match collapsing inhomogeneous as well as spatially homogeneous but
anisotropic spacetimes to vacuum static exteriors with a negative cosmological
constant and planar or hyperbolic symmetry. The collapsing interiors include
the inhomogeneous solutions of Szekeres and of Barnes, which in turn include
the Lemaitre-Tolman and the McVittie solutions. The collapse can result in
toroidal or higher genus asymptotically AdS black holes.
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Yesterday, I went alone to the cinema, because here in Mexico, most of the times movies from other countries are part of the so called "camára alternativa" (alternative camera). But after I saw this movie, I realized that not all the foreign movies are alternative. Afortunately, this is a good a example. But I have to said that I enjoyed so much this movie.. that at the end I was happy.. this movie is a little spoon of hope in these days. And the main lesson for me.. is that at the end of the day...the love is main force behind us. This is a good option to see a good movie in Spanish...and I have to mention the good music.. specially the main song of the movie.. Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena.... Excellent song!!!
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Nice gaming rig for the price
Nice looking case with a tempered glass cover to show the inside. Video card is absolutely gorgeous and I’m sure it will hammer games out at a high frame rate. My dislikes: I’d like to see a larger SSD for the price, and some higher end gaming memory. Overall, it’s a nice buy.
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We perform an ab initio shell-model calculation for ^{18}O in a restricted
no-core model space, microscopically deriving a two-body effective interaction
and introducing a minimal refinement of one-body energies in the spsd or spsdpf
model space. Low-lying energy levels, except for the experimental 0_{2}^{+} and
2_{3}^{+} states, are better described in the spsdpf space than in the spsd
space. The structure of low-lying energy levels is discussed with an emphasis
on many-particle many-hole states beyond the four-particle two-hole
configuration.
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Let X be a smooth projective algebraic curve of genus g minus $r\geq 1$
points defined over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic $p\geq
0$. The structure of the largest prime to p quotient of the \'etale fundamental
group is well known by transcendental methods : it is isomorphic to the largest
prime to p quotient of a free pro-finite group on 2g+r-1 generators. We show
that, with purely algebraic means, we can prove the corresponding result for
the largest pro-solvable quotient of these groups.
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This paper proposes a ($k,n$)-threshold secret image sharing scheme that
offers flexibility in terms of meeting contrasting demands such as information
security and storage efficiency with the help of a randomized kernel (binary
matrix) operation. A secret image is split into $n$ shares such that any $k$ or
more shares ($k\leq n$) can be used to reconstruct the image. Each share has a
size less than or at most equal to the size of the secret image. Security and
share sizes are solely determined by the kernel of the scheme. The kernel
operation is optimized in terms of the security and computational requirements.
The storage overhead of the kernel can further be made independent of its size
by efficiently storing it as a sparse matrix. Moreover, the scheme is free from
any kind of single point of failure (SPOF).
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Viscosity is a key property of cell membranes that controls mobility of embedded proteins and membrane remodeling. Measuring it is challenging because existing approaches involve complex experimental designs and/or models, and the applicability of some is limited to specific systems and membrane compositions. As a result there is scarcity of data and the reported values for membrane viscosity vary by orders of magnitude for the same system. Here, we show how viscosity of bilayer membranes can be obtained from the transient deformation of giant unilamellar vesicles. The approach enables a non-invasive, probe-independent and high-throughput measurement of the viscosity of bilayers made of lipids or polymers with a wide range of compositions and phase state. Pure lipid and single-phase mixed bilayers are found to behave as Newtonian fluids with strain-rate independent viscosity, while phase-separated and diblock-copolymers systems exhibit shear-thinning in the explored range of strain rates 1-2000 s-1. The results also reveal that electrically polarized bilayers can be significantly more viscous than charge-neutral bilayers. These findings suggest that biomembrane viscosity is a dynamic property that can be actively modulated not only by composition but also by membrane polarization, e.g., as in action potentials.
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Bristles are very stiff so they can't sweep up fine dust, no matter how many times I pass ...
Bristles are very stiff so they can't sweep up fine dust, no matter how many times I pass over an area. The broom comes pre-drilled in the middle with 2 holes which only serves to weaken the wood in the middle. Not sure why anyone would need 2 holes there.
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Link prediction is a common problem in network science that transects many
disciplines. The goal is to forecast the appearance of new links or to find
links missing in the network. Typical methods for link prediction use the
topology of the network to predict the most likely future or missing
connections between a pair of nodes. However, network evolution is often
mediated by higher-order structures involving more than pairs of nodes; for
example, cliques on three nodes (also called triangles) are key to the
structure of social networks, but the standard link prediction framework does
not directly predict these structures. To address this gap, we propose a new
link prediction task called "pairwise link prediction" that directly targets
the prediction of new triangles, where one is tasked with finding which nodes
are most likely to form a triangle with a given edge. We develop two
PageRank-based methods for our pairwise link prediction problem and make
natural extensions to existing link prediction methods. Our experiments on a
variety of networks show that diffusion based methods are less sensitive to the
type of graphs used and more consistent in their results. We also show how our
pairwise link prediction framework can be used to get better predictions within
the context of standard link prediction evaluation.
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It has been demonstrated that the effective potential V(\phi) in a massless
O(N) \lambda \phi^4_4 model is determined completely by the renormalization
group functions provided the renormalization condition \frac{d^4V}{d
\phi^4}|_{\phi=\mu}=\lambda is used. This is shown to also hold in massless
scalar electrodynamics. By employing a variant of the method of
characteristics, the sums contributing to the leading-log, next-to-leading-log
etc. contributions to V(\phi) can be evaluated.
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The Equal Filling Approximation, a procedure widely used in mean field
calculations to treat the dynamics of odd nuclei in a time reversal invariant
way, is justified as the consequence of a variational principle over an average
energy functional. The ideas of Statistical Quantum Mechanics are employed in
the justification. As an illustration of the method, the ground and lowest
lying states of some octupole deformed Radium isotopes are computed.
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Constructing latent vector representation for nodes in a network through
embedding models has shown its practicality in many graph analysis
applications, such as node classification, clustering, and link prediction.
However, despite the high efficiency and accuracy of learning an embedding
model, people have little clue of what information about the original network
is preserved in the embedding vectors. The abstractness of low-dimensional
vector representation, stochastic nature of the construction process, and
non-transparent hyper-parameters all obscure understanding of network embedding
results. Visualization techniques have been introduced to facilitate embedding
vector inspection, usually by projecting the embedding space to a
two-dimensional display. Although the existing visualization methods allow
simple examination of the structure of embedding space, they cannot support
in-depth exploration of the embedding vectors. In this paper, we design an
exploratory visual analytics system that supports the comparative visual
interpretation of embedding vectors at the cluster, instance, and structural
levels. To be more specific, it facilitates comparison of what and how node
metrics are preserved across different embedding models and investigation of
relationships between node metrics and selected embedding vectors. Several case
studies confirm the efficacy of our system. Experts' feedback suggests that our
approach indeed helps them better embrace the understanding of network
embedding models.
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A comparison between linear stability analysis and observations of pulsation
modes in five delta Scuti stars, belonging to the same cluster, is presented.
The study is based on the work by Michel et al. (1999), in which such a
comparison was performed for a representative set of model solutions obtained
independently for each individual star considered. In this paper we revisit the
work by Michel et al. (1999) following, however, a new approach which consists
in the search for a single, complete, and coherent solution for all the
selected stars, in order to constrain and test the assumed physics describing
these objects. To do so, refined descriptions for the effects of rotation on
the determination of the global stellar parameters and on the adiabatic
oscillation frequency computations are used. In addition, a crude attempt is
made to study the role of rotation on the prediction of mode instabilities.The
present results are found to be comparable with those reported by Michel et al.
(1999). Within the temperature range log T_eff = 3.87-3.88 agreement between
observations and model computations of unstable modes is restricted to values
for the mixing-length parameter alpha_nl less or equal to 1.50. This indicates
that for these stars a smaller value for alpha_nl is required than suggested
from a calibrated solar model. We stress the point that the linear stability
analysis used in this work still assumes stellar models without rotation and
that further developments are required for a proper description of the
interaction between rotation and pulsation dynamics.
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Unintegrated parton distributions in the proton and nucleus are predicted by
a modified DGLAP equation incorporating the shadowing corrections, which
include exact energy-momentum conservation in each splitting and fusion
vertices. We find that the nuclear shadowing effects are obvious, although they
are far from the saturation limit. On the other hand, we point out that the
suppression of the unintegrated gluon distribution toward lower $k_t^2$ may
arise from the valence-like input rather than the saturation effects.
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The Myb transcription factor plays critical roles in normal and malignant hematopoiesis. Acquired genetic dysregulation of Myb, which plays a central role in hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene regulation, is involved in the etiology of a number of leukemias. Also, inherited non-coding variants of the Myb gene are a factor in susceptibility to many hematological conditions, including myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), but the mechanisms by which variations in Myb levels predispose to disease, including age-dependency in disease occurrence, are completely unknown. Here, we address these key points by showing that Myb insufficiency in mice leads in later life to MPN, myelodysplasia, and leukemia, mirroring the age profile of equivalent human diseases. This age-dependence is intrinsic to HSC, involving progressive accumulation of subtle changes. Interestingly, and linking to previous studies showing the importance of proteostasis to the maintenance of normal HSC, we observed altered proteosomal activity in young Myb-insufficient mice and later elevated ribosome activity. We propose that these alterations collectively cause an imbalance in proteostasis, potentially creating a cellular milieu favoring disease initiation by driver mutations.
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To sum this story up in a few sentences: A teenage girl (Amy) uses her hot body and "supposed" virginity to entice a young troubled guy (Matt) with a potential football scholarship to provide her a "Full Ride" out of town. Come to find out she has quite the reputation & has slept with many football players in the past hoping they would offer her the same deal. Both of these kids have come from troubled & dysfunctional homes. Matt's mothers a alcoholic who repeatedly embarrasses him in front of his friends & Amy's mother had a bad reputation herself & got pregnant with Amy at a a young age. Matt falls in love with Amy & tries to straighten out his life for her. Very predictable ending. The actress that plays "Amy" is actually 33 years old trying to play a teenager!
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Synthetic biology aims at designing modular genetic circuits that can be
assembled according to the desired function. When embedded in a cell, a circuit
module becomes a small subnetwork within a larger environmental network, and
its dynamics is therefore affected by potentially unknown interactions with the
environment. It is well-known that the presence of the environment not only
causes extrinsic noise but also memory effects, which means that the dynamics
of the subnetwork is affected by its past states via a memory function that is
characteristic of the environment. We study several generic scenarios for the
coupling between a small module and a larger environment, with the environment
consisting of a chain of mono-molecular reactions. By mapping the dynamics of
this coupled system onto random walks, we are able to give exact analytical
expressions for the arising memory functions. Hence, our results give insights
into the possible types of memory functions and thereby help to better predict
subnetwork dynamics.
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We consider the problem of ranking a set of items from pairwise comparisons
in the presence of features associated with the items. Recent works have
established that $O(n\log(n))$ samples are needed to rank well when there is no
feature information present. However, this might be sub-optimal in the presence
of associated features. We introduce a new probabilistic preference model
called feature-Bradley-Terry-Luce (f-BTL) model that generalizes the standard
BTL model to incorporate feature information. We present a new least squares
based algorithm called fBTL-LS which we show requires much lesser than
$O(n\log(n))$ pairs to obtain a good ranking -- precisely our new sample
complexity bound is of $O(\alpha\log \alpha)$, where $\alpha$ denotes the
number of `independent items' of the set, in general $\alpha << n$. Our
analysis is novel and makes use of tools from classical graph matching theory
to provide tighter bounds that sheds light on the true complexity of the
ranking problem, capturing the item dependencies in terms of their feature
representations. This was not possible with earlier matrix completion based
tools used for this problem. We also prove an information theoretic lower bound
on the required sample complexity for recovering the underlying ranking, which
essentially shows the tightness of our proposed algorithms. The efficacy of our
proposed algorithms are validated through extensive experimental evaluations on
a variety of synthetic and real world datasets.
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This is a complete Hoax...<br /><br />The movie clearly has been shot in north western Indian state of Rajasthan. Look at the chase scene - the vehicles are Indian; the writing all over is Hindi - language used in India. The drive through is on typical Jaipur streets. Also the palace is in Amer - about 10 miles from Jaipur, Rajasthan. The film-makers in their (about the film) in DVD Bonus seem to make it sound that they risked their lives shooting in Kabul and around. Almost all of their action scenes are shot in India. The scene where they see a group singing around fire is so fake that they did not even think about changing it to Afgani folk song. They just recorded the Rajasthani folk song. How do I know it because I have traveled that area extensively. They are just on the band-wagon to make big on the issue. I do challenge the film makers to deny it.
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Most neutrino mass extensions of the standard electroweak model entail
non-standard interactions which, in the low energy limit, can be parametrized
in term of effective four-fermion operators $\nu_\alpha \nu_\beta \bar f f $.
Typically of sub-weak strength, $\epsilon_{\alpha \beta} G_F$, these are
characterized by dimensionless coupling parameters, $\epsilon_{\alpha \beta}$,
which may be relatively sizeable in a wide class of schemes. Here we focus on
non-universal (NU) flavor conserving couplings ($\alpha = \beta$) with
electrons ($f = e$) and analyse their impact on the phenomenology of solar
neutrinos. We consistently take into account their effect both at the level of
propagation where they modify the standard MSW behavior, and at the level of
detection, where they affect the cross section of neutrino elastic scattering
on electrons. We find limits which are comparable to other existing
model-independent constraints.
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The single-top production cross section is one third that of the top-pair
production cross section at the LHC. During a year of data-taking, assuming an
average luminosity of 10^33 cm-2 s-1 and a CMS energy of 14 TeV, the
determination of the major contributions to the total single-top cross section
should be achievable. Comparisons between the measured cross sections and the
theoretical predictions will provide a crucial test of the standard model.
These measurements should also lead to the first direct measurement of |V_tb|,
with a precision at the level of a few percent. In addition, they will probe
for new physics via the search for evidence of anomalous couplings to the top
quark and the measurements of additional bosonic contributions to single-top
production. Methods developed to optimize the selection of single-top events in
the three production channels are presented and the potential for the cross
section measurements with 1 fb-1 and 30 fb-1 of integrated luminosity is
established.
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Single-file diffusion behaves as normal diffusion at small time and as
anomalous subdiffusion at large time. These properties can be described by
fractional Brownian motion with variable Hurst exponent or multifractional
Brownian motion. We introduce a new stochastic process called Riemann-Liouville
step fractional Brownian motion which can be regarded as a special case of
multifractional Brownian motion with step function type of Hurst exponent
tailored for single-file diffusion. Such a step fractional Brownian motion can
be obtained as solution of fractional Langevin equation with zero damping.
Various types of fractional Langevin equations and their generalizations are
then considered to decide whether their solutions provide the correct
description of the long and short time behaviors of single-file diffusion. The
cases where dissipative memory kernel is a Dirac delta function, a power-law
function, and a combination of both of these functions, are studied in detail.
In addition to the case where the short time behavior of single-file diffusion
behaves as normal diffusion, we also consider the possibility of the process
that begins as ballistic motion.
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In this paper, we present extensive optical and ultraviolet (UV) observations
of the type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2013gs discovered during the Tsinghua-NAOC
Transient Survey. The photometric observations in the optical show that the
light curves of SN 2013gs is similar to that of normal SNe Ia, with an absolute
peak magnitude of $M_{B}$ = $-$19.25 $\pm$ 0.15 mag and a post-maximum decline
rate $\Delta$m$_{15}$(B) = 1.00 $ \pm $ 0.05 mag. \emph{Gehrels Swift} UVOT
observations indicate that SN 2013gs shows unusually strong UV emission
(especially in the $uvw1$ band) at around the maximum light (M$_{uvw1}$ $\sim$
$-$18.9 mag). The SN is characterized by relatively weak Fe~{\sc ii} {\sc iii}
absorptions at $\sim$ 5000{\AA} in the early spectra and a larger expansion
velocity ($v_{Si}$ $\sim$ 13,000 km s$^{-1}$ around the maximum light) than the
normal-velocity SNe Ia. We discuss the relation between the $uvw1-v$ color and
some observables, including Si~{\sc ii} velocity, line strength of Si~{\sc ii}
$\lambda$6355, Fe~{\sc ii}/{\sc iii} lines and $\Delta m_{15}$(B). Compared to
other fast-expanding SNe Ia, SN 2013gs exhibits Si and Fe absorption lines with
similar strength and bluer $uvw1-v$ color. We briefly discussed the origin of
the observed UV dispersion of SNe Ia.
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Several multi-pass algorithms have been proposed for Association Rule Mining
from static repositories. However, such algorithms are incapable of online
processing of transaction streams. In this paper we introduce an efficient
single-pass algorithm for mining association rules, given a hierarchical
classification amongest items. Processing efficiency is achieved by utilizing
two optimizations, hierarchy aware counting and transaction reduction, which
become possible in the context of hierarchical classification. This paper
considers the problem of integrating constraints that are Boolean expression
over the presence or absence of items into the association discovery algorithm.
This paper present three integrated algorithms for mining association rules
with item constraints and discuss their tradeoffs. It is concluded that the
variation of complexity depends on the measure of DIT (Depth of Inheritance
Tree) and NOC (Number of Children) in the context of Hierarchical
Classification.
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In this paper we show that the N=4 SYM total cross section violates the
Froissart theorem, and in the huge range of energy this cross section is
proportional to $s^{1/3}$. The graviton reggeization will change this increase
to the normal logarithmic behaviour $\sigma \propto \ln^2 s$. However, we
demonstrated that this happens at ultra high energy, much higher than the LHC
energy. In the region of accessible energy we need to assume that there is a
different source for the total cross section, with the value of the cross
section about 40 mb. With this assumption we successfully describe
$\sigma_{tot}, \sigma_{el}$ and $\sigma_{diff}$ for the accessible range of
energy from the fixed target Fermilab to the Tevatron energies. It turns out
that the N=4 SYM mechanism can be responsible only for a small part of the
inelastic cross section for this energy region (about $2 mb$). However, at the
LHC energy the N=4 SYM theory can describe the multipartticle production with
$\sigma_{in} \approx 28 mb$. The second surprise is the fact that the total
cross section and the diffraction cross section can increase considerably from
the Tevatron to the LHC energy. The bad description of $B_{el}$ gives the
strong argument that the non N=4 SYM background should depend on energy. We
believe that we have a dilemma: to find a new mechanism for the inelastic
production in the framework of N=4 SYM other than the reggeized graviton
interaction, or to accept that N=4 SYM is irrelevant to any experimental data
that has been measured before the LHC era.
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This paper studies flexible multi-facility capacity expansion with risk
aversion. In this setting, the decision maker can periodically expand the
capacity of facilities given observations of uncertain demand. We model this
situation as a multi-stage stochastic programming problem. We express risk
aversion in this problem through conditional value-at-risk (CVaR), and we
formulate a mean-CVaR objective. To solve the multi-stage problem, we optimize
over decision rules. In particular, we approximate the full policy space of the
problem with a tractable family of if-then policies. Subsequently, a
decomposition algorithm is proposed to optimize the decision rule. This
algorithm decomposes the model over scenarios and it updates solutions via the
subgradients of the recourse function. We demonstrate that this algorithm can
quickly converge to high-performance policies. To illustrate the practical
effectiveness of this method, a case study on the waste-to-energy system in
Singapore is presented. These simulation results show that by adjusting the
weight factor of the objective function, decision makers are able to trade off
between a risk-averse policy that has a higher expected cost but a lower
value-at-risk, and a risk-neutral policy that has a lower expected cost but a
higher value-at-risk risk.
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If you like cheese, this is the stuff you'll have on your table.
I'm hooked on this stuff. I make my "Mac and Cheese" with velveeta and add tablespoon or two of this stuff to it. I also sprinkle it over my hash-browns or eggs for breakfast. I have even gotten into the habit of carrying some along when I hit the fast food joints - it's great on fries hot out of the fryer. (I would rank it as a somewhat "Sharp Cheddar" -definitely not a plain cheddar) We keep finding new things to put it on. Even gets me to eat my veggies.
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It has been a long-standing open question why observed globular cluster (GC)
populations of different metallicities differ in their ages and spatial
distributions, with metal-poor GCs being the older and radially more extended
of the two. We use the suite of 25 Milky Way-mass cosmological zoom-in
simulations from the E-MOSAICS project, which self-consistently model the
formation and evolution of stellar clusters and their host galaxies, to
understand the properties of observed GC populations. We find that the
different ages and spatial distributions of metal-poor and metal-rich GCs are
the result of regular cluster formation at high redshift in the context of
hierarchical galaxy assembly. We also find that metallicity on its own is not a
good tracer of accretion, and other properties, such as kinematics, need to be
considered.
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We present the theory of a single spin meter consisting of a quantum dot in a
magnetic field under microwave irradiation combined with a charge counter. We
show that when a current is passed through the dot, a change in the average
occupation number occurs if the microwaves are resonant with the on-dot Zeeman
splitting. The width of the resonant change is given by the microwave induced
Rabi frequency, making the quantum dot a sensitive probe of the local magnetic
field and enabling the detection of the state of a nearby spin. If the dot-spin
and the nearby spin have different g-factors a non-demolition readout of the
spin state can be achieved. The conditions for a reliable spin readout are
found.
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Low-albedo, hydrated objects dominate the list of the largest asteroids.
These objects have varied spectral shapes in the 3-$\mu$m region, where
diagnostic absorptions due to volatile species are found. Dawn's visit to Ceres
has extended the view shaped by ground-based observing, and shown that world to
be a complex one, potentially still experiencing geological activity. We
present 33 observations from 2.2-4.0 $\mu$m of eight large (greater than 200 km
diameter) asteroids from the C spectral complex, with spectra inconsistent with
the hydrated minerals we see in meteorites. We characterize their absorption
band characteristics via polynomial and Gaussian fits to test their spectral
similarity to Ceres, the asteroid 24 Themis (thought to be covered in ice
frost), and the asteroid 51 Nemausa (spectrally similar to the CM meteorites).
We confirm most of the observations are inconsistent with what is seen in
meteorites and require additional absorbers. We find clusters in band centers
that correspond to Ceres- and Themis-like spectra, but no hiatus in the
distribution suitable for use to simply distinguish between them. We also find
a range of band centers in the spectra that approaches what is seen on Comet
67P. Finally, variation is seen between observations for some objects, with the
variation on 324 Bamberga consistent with hemispheric-level difference in
composition. Given the ubiquity of objects with 3-$\mu$m spectra unlike what we
see in meteorites, and the similarity of those spectra to the published spectra
of Ceres and Themis, these objects appear much more to be archetypes than
outliers.
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By work of John Tate we can associate an epsilon factor with every
multiplicative character of a local field. In this paper we determine the
explicit signs of the epsilon factors for symplectic type characters of
$K^\times$, where $K/F$ is a wildly ramified quadratic extension of a
non-Archimedean local field $F$ of characteristic zero.
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Efforts at modelling the propagation of seismic waves in half-spaces with
continuously varying properties have been mostly focused on shear-horizontal
waves. Here a sagittaly polarized (Rayleigh type) wave travels along a symmetry
axis (and is attenuated along another) of an orthotropic material with
stiffnesses and mass density varying in the same exponential manner with depth.
Contrary to what could be expected at first sight, the analysis is very similar
to that of the homogeneous half-space, with the main and capital difference
that the Rayleigh wave is now dispersive. The results are illustrated
numerically for (i) an orthotropic half-space typical of horizontally layered
and vertically fractured shales and (ii) for an isotropic half-space made of
silica. In both examples, the wave travels at a slower speed and penetrates
deeper than in the homogeneous case; in the second example, the inhomogeneity
can force the wave amplitude to oscillate as well as decay with depth, in
marked contrast with the homogeneous isotropic general case.
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Package came looking really bad, I opened up the box to find that ...
Package came looking really bad, I opened up the box to find that there was missing bolts and nuts and the rear derailleur was bent into the rear wheel. I tried to adjust this but still catches on the spokes. The rear reflector was shattered and not in any usable shape. Be aware that what you pay for is what you get. I feel that Walmart would have been a bit easier to deal with than trying to save a few dollars and you wouldn't have to assemble it yourself.
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this is the most overrated show on television. i believe people continue to watch it because they feel they should, because it has become somewhat of a "cool" show to watch and talk to your friends about the next day at work or school. rarely does it actually elicit anything more than a chuckle and never provokes any sense of irony or thought from the audience. every joke is interchangeable with "punchlines" that seem to be drawn out of a hat. the complete lack of originality combined with the even somehow lamer spin off it has spawned (see: American Dad) makes me question the intelliegence of an audience that continues to keep this horrid show on TV. i award family guy no points and may god have mercy on its soul...
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We study spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the spectral properties of
the staggered lattice Dirac operator using quenched gauge configurations for
the exceptional group G2, which has a trivial center. In particular we study
the system below and above the finite temperature transition and use the
temporal boundary conditions of the fermions to probe the system. We evaluate
several observables: The spectral density at the origin, the spectral gap, the
chiral condensate and the recently proposed dual chiral condensate. We show
that chiral symmetry is broken at low temperatures and is restored at high
temperatures at the thermodynamic phase transition. Concerning the role of the
boundary conditions we establish that in all respects the spectral quantities
behave for G2 in exactly the same way as for SU(N), when for the latter group
the gauge ensemble above T_c is restricted to the sector of configurations with
real Polyakov loop.
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The Good is Blondie, a wandering gunman with a strong personal sense of
honor. The Bad is Angel Eyes, a sadistic hitman who always hits his mark. The
Ugly is Tuco, a Mexican bandit who's always only looking out for himself.
Against the backdrop of the BOWS contest, they search for a watermark in gold
buried in three images. Each knows only a portion of the gold's exact location,
so for the moment they're dependent on each other. However, none are
particularly inclined to share...
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The Seven-Ups is a good and engrossing film. It's packed with credible performances by Scheider, LaBianco and an effective scary performance by Richard Lynch - although most of the characters are card-board cut-out tough guys. Character development does not evolve at all on the screen. The only thing we know is the good guys are the good guys and the bad guys are bad. Deviating from the crime story norm, The Seven-Ups manage to throw Scheider and crew into the middle of a building plot in a unique writing twist. Onsite locations of New York City and an excellent choreographed car chase highlight the film. The only downside of the film is the slightly confusing plot line in the beginning. They give the viewer little evidence that the men being kidnapped are mob related (until later in the film). Had someone blindly started watching the film may be slightly confused on the story. Otherwise, The Seven-Ups is a gritty, testosterone-filled enjoyable time.
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Two-dimensional ferromagnetic electron gases subject to random scalar
potentials and Rashba spin-orbit interactions exhibit a striking quantum
criticality. As disorder strength $W$ increases, the systems undergo a
transition from a normal diffusive metal consisting of extended states to a
marginal metal consisting of critical states at a critical disorder $W_{c,1}$.
Further increase of $W$, another transition from the marginal metal to an
insulator occurs at $W_{c,2}$. Through highly accurate numerical procedures
based on the recursive Green's function method and the exact diagonalization,
we elucidate the nature of the quantum criticality and the properties of the
pertinent states. The intrinsic conductances follow an unorthodox
single-parameter scaling law: They collapse onto two branches of curves
corresponding to diffusive metal phase and insulating phase with correlation
lengths diverging exponentially as $\xi\propto\exp[\alpha/\sqrt{|W-W_c|}]$ near
transition points. Finite-size analysis of inverse participation ratios reveals
that the states within the critical regime $[W_{c,1},W_{c,2}]$ are fractals of
a universal fractal dimension $D=1.90\pm0.02$ while those in metallic
(insulating) regime spread over the whole system (localize) with $D=2$ ($D=0$).
A phase diagram in the parameter space illuminates the occurrence and evolution
of diffusive metals, marginal metals, and the Anderson insulators.
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As good an advert for republicanism as you're ever likely to see,"Mayerling"is an everyday story of royal folk in late nineteenth century Austria.Set during one of Europe's seemingly incessant internal turmoils it concerns itself with the Emperor Franz Joseph (Mr James Mason),his rebellious son,the Crown Prince Rudolf (Mr Omar Sharif)the Empress(Miss Ava Gardner) and various mistresses,secret policemen,spies,extravagantly-uniformed popinjays,gypsies,dancers,wives, soldiers,swans,horses and the bizarre inbred web of European royalty at the time of Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian Empire. Filmed in what the old movie posters used to call "A Riot of Color" it resembles nothing more than an expensively-dressed but intellectually-challenged production of "The Student Prince" .Mr James Mason,wearing a very natty little white number,utilises his all-purpose mittel-European accent whenever he remembers.I am a great admirer of his and I sincerely hope the remuneration was comensurate with the distaste he clearly felt for the character he was playing. Mr Omar Sharif,who built a career largely founded on looking directly at the camera with his big brown eyes and looking soulful,gives a stupefyingly monotonous performance as his son the Crown Prince.He is utterly unconvincing as a man who -in the movie at least-cut a swathe through the distaff side of the Austrian aristocracy.With his well-buttered locks firmly in place he preens and poses in ever more unlikely uniforms.As a rebel he talks the talk but conspicuously fails to walk the walk,leaving a bottom button undone on one of his tunics is about as far as his defiance goes.Unhappily married,he falls in love with a commoner."Forbidden Love" is one of the movie's come-ons.As she is played by the most uncommon Miss Catherine Deneuve he is scarcely pushing the envelope there.Miss Deneuve has a profile to die for and we see rather a lot of it,particularly in the sequence set at the ballet. Now I love ballet as much as the next man,but this sequence does seem to go on for an excessive amount of time,a more cynical critic might consider it to be "padding". Rudolf's mother,the Empress is played by Miss Ava Gardner.She gives the part some good old American oooomph,making her a bit like "Auntie Mame",but it's done with undeniable style.Rudolf is certainly very fond of his mother - I'll put it no more strongly than that. The only performance worth watching is that of Mr James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot Spratt - sorry,Edward,Prince of Wales.He is so wonderfully unconcerned about everything going on around him it's a joy to behold.I waited vainly for him to ask Rudolf the immortal question "What's the bleeding time?". I am not qualified to dispute "Mayerling" 's historical accuracy,but,in my opinion,everything else about it is risible. It is a Ruritanian Opera Buffa without the tunes to send you home from the theatre whistling.
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Constellation Constrained (CC) capacity regions of a two-user SISO Gaussian
Multiple Access Channel (GMAC) with finite complex input alphabets and
continuous output are computed in this paper. When both the users employ the
same code alphabet, it is well known that an appropriate rotation between the
alphabets provides unique decodability to the receiver. For such a set-up, a
metric is proposed to compute the angle(s) of rotation between the alphabets
such that the CC capacity region is maximally enlarged. Subsequently, code
pairs based on Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) are designed for the two-user
GMAC with $M$-PSK and $M$-PAM alphabet pairs for arbitrary values of $M$ and it
is proved that, for certain angles of rotation, Ungerboeck labelling on the
trellis of each user maximizes the guaranteed squared Euclidean distance of the
\textit{sum trellis}. Hence, such a labelling scheme can be used systematically
to construct trellis code pairs for a two-user GMAC to achieve sum rates close
to the sum capacity of the channel. More importantly, it is shown for the first
time that ML decoding complexity at the destination is significantly reduced
when $M$-PAM alphabet pairs are employed with \textit{almost} no loss in the
sum capacity. \indent A two-user Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) fading
MAC with $N_{t}$ antennas at both the users and a single antenna at the
destination has also been considered with the assumption that the destination
has the perfect knowledge of channel state information and the two users have
the perfect knowledge of only the phase components of their channels. For such
a set-up, two distinct classes of Space Time Block Code (STBC) pairs derived
from the well known class of real orthogonal designs are proposed such that the
STBC pairs are information lossless and have low ML decoding complexity.
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OK another film bought by me and Joe Swatman. OK this isn't the worst film i've reviewed this week but it still sucked royaly. we had a lot of fun watching this piece of crap.<br /><br />The Monster Jigsaw is a mish mash of all these dysfunctional students ideas, u just know ur in for trouble when someone equips him with a buzzsaw and a sawed of shotgun, the film wasn't as gory as we hoped, i mean on of the deaths is a heart attack. Again i think the acting sucks, sum of the actors must be porn stars and one get into her undies for what ever reason. <br /><br />The absolute worst part is the ending, it leaves it open for a bit of a Jigsaw 2 but thats never gunna happen lets face it.<br /><br />My ratings:<br /><br />funny 4/100 mock (how much fun we had mocking it) 73/100 acting 8/100 generally 12/100
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If a state does not participate (or is not certified by the Department of Labor as meeting Federal requirements): (i) the Federal unemployment tax is levied within the state at its maximum rate, (ii) the system does not pay any unemployment compensation benefits within the state, and (iii) the Federal Government provides no grants to state governments to pay for the costs of administration.
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We present Neural Random Forest Imitation - a novel approach for transforming
random forests into neural networks. Existing methods produce very inefficient
architectures and do not scale. In this paper, we introduce a new method for
generating data from a random forest and learning a neural network that
imitates it. Without any additional training data, this transformation creates
very efficient neural networks that learn the decision boundaries of a random
forest. The generated model is fully differentiable and can be combined with
the feature extraction in a single pipeline enabling further end-to-end
processing. Experiments on several real-world benchmark datasets demonstrate
outstanding performance in terms of scalability, accuracy, and learning with
very few training examples. Compared to state-of-the-art mappings, we
significantly reduce the network size while achieving the same or even improved
accuracy due to better generalization.
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In practical applications, it is common that wildfire simulators do not
correctly predict the evolution of the fire scar. Usually, this is caused due
to multiple factors including inaccuracy in the input data such as land cover
classification, moisture, improperly represented local winds, cumulative errors
in the fire growth simulation model, high level of discontinuity/heterogeneity
within the landscape, among many others. Therefore in practice, it is necessary
to adjust the propagation of the fire to obtain better results, either to
support suppression activities or to improve the performance of the simulator
considering new default parameters for future events, best representing the
current fire spread growth phenomenon. In this article, we address this problem
through a new methodology using Derivative-Free Optimization (DFO) algorithms
for adjusting the Rate of Spread (ROS) factors in a fire simulation growth
model called Cell2Fire. To achieve this, we solve an error minimization
optimization problem that captures the difference between the simulated and
observed fire, which involves the evaluation of the simulator output in each
iteration as part of a DFO framework, allowing us to find the best possible
factors for each fuel present on the landscape. Numerical results for different
objective functions are shown and discussed, including a performance comparison
of alternative DFO algorithms.
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We study aspects of the refining and shifting properties of the 3d MacMahon
function $\mathcal{C}_{3}(q) $ used in topological string theory and BKP
hierarchy. We derive the explicit expressions of the shifted topological vertex
$\mathcal{S}_{\lambda \mu \nu}(q) $ and its refined version
$\mathcal{T}_{\lambda \mu \nu}(q,t) $. These vertices complete results in
literature.
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We derive a model problem for quasicontinuum approximations that allows a
simple, yet insightful, analysis of the optimal-order convergence rate in the
continuum limit for both the energy-based quasicontinuum approximation and the
quasi-nonlocal quasicontinuum approximation. The optimal-order error estimates
for the quasi-nonlocal quasicontinuum approximation are given for all strains
up to the continuum limit strain for fracture. The analysis is based on an
explicit treatment of the coupling error at the atomistic to continuum
interface, combined with an analysis of the error due to atomistic and
continuum schemes using the stability of the quasicontinuum approximation.
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We study the asymptotics of the ruin probability in the Cram\'er-Lundberg
model with a modified notion of ruin. The modification is as follows. If the
portfolio becomes negative, the asset is not immediately declared ruined but
may survive due to certain mechanisms. Under a rather general assumption on the
mechanism - satisfied by most such modified models from the literature - we
study the relation of the asymptotics of the modified ruin probability to the
classical ruin probability. This is done under the Cram\'er condition as well
as for subexponential integrated claim sizes.
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Microscopic pathways of structural phase transitions are difficult to probe
because they occur over multiple, disparate time and length scales. Using $in$
$situ$ nanoscale cathodoluminescence microscopy, we visualize the
thermally-driven transition to the perovskite phase in hundreds of
non-perovskite phase nanowires, resolving the initial nanoscale nucleation and
subsequent mesoscale growth and quantifying the activation energy for phase
propagation. In combination with molecular dynamics computer simulations, we
reveal that the transformation does not follow a simple martensitic mechanism,
and proceeds via ion diffusion through a liquid-like interface between the two
structures. While cations are disordered in this liquid-like region, the halide
ions retain substantial spatial correlations. We find that the anisotropic
crystal structure translates to faster nucleation of the perovskite phase at
nanowire ends and faster growth along the long nanowire axis. These results
represent a significant step towards manipulating structural phases at the
nanoscale for designer materials properties.
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In a bipartite max-min LP, we are given a bipartite graph $\myG = (V \cup I
\cup K, E)$, where each agent $v \in V$ is adjacent to exactly one constraint
$i \in I$ and exactly one objective $k \in K$. Each agent $v$ controls a
variable $x_v$. For each $i \in I$ we have a nonnegative linear constraint on
the variables of adjacent agents. For each $k \in K$ we have a nonnegative
linear objective function of the variables of adjacent agents. The task is to
maximise the minimum of the objective functions. We study local algorithms
where each agent $v$ must choose $x_v$ based on input within its
constant-radius neighbourhood in $\myG$. We show that for every $\epsilon>0$
there exists a local algorithm achieving the approximation ratio ${\Delta_I (1
- 1/\Delta_K)} + \epsilon$. We also show that this result is the best possible
-- no local algorithm can achieve the approximation ratio ${\Delta_I (1 -
1/\Delta_K)}$. Here $\Delta_I$ is the maximum degree of a vertex $i \in I$, and
$\Delta_K$ is the maximum degree of a vertex $k \in K$. As a methodological
contribution, we introduce the technique of graph unfolding for the design of
local approximation algorithms.
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We consider unitary ensembles of Hermitian NxN matrices H with a confining
potential NV where V is analytic and uniformly convex. From work by
Zinn-Justin, Collins, and Guionnet and Maida it is known that the large-N limit
of the characteristic function for a finite-rank Fourier variable K is
determined by the Voiculescu R-transform, a key object in free probability
theory. Going beyond these results, we argue that the same holds true when the
finite-rank operator K has the form that is required by the Wegner-Efetov
supersymmetry method of integration over commuting and anti-commuting
variables. This insight leads to a potent new technique for the study of local
statistics, e.g., level correlations. We illustrate the new technique by
demonstrating universality in a random matrix model of stochastic scattering.
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We assess the practicality of random network coding by illuminating the issue
of overhead and considering it in conjunction with increasingly long packets
sent over the erasure channel. We show that the transmission of increasingly
long packets, consisting of either of an increasing number of symbols per
packet or an increasing symbol alphabet size, results in a data rate
approaching zero over the erasure channel. This result is due to an erasure
probability that increases with packet length. Numerical results for a
particular modulation scheme demonstrate a data rate of approximately zero for
a large, but finite-length packet. Our results suggest a reduction in the
performance gains offered by random network coding.
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In this article we report on a new proposal to treat the infrared problems of
thermal QCD by taking into account explicitly the confining influence of the
Gribov horizon. In order to make clear the possible value of such an approach,
we briefly review the most important arguments why a straightforward
perturbative description of finite-temperature QCD is unlikely to be
successful. From the infrared problems of thermal perturbation theory one can
conclude that confinement effects and bound states probably play an important
role also in the high-temperature phase.
To set the stage we recount the supposed role of the Gribov horizon for
confinement, before we turn to the application to finite-temperature theory. In
the current approach it has been found that the contributions to the free
energy from the explicit inclusion of the horizon begin to set in at order
$g^6$ -- precisely where the infrared problems of thermal QCD lead to a
breakdown of ordinary perturbation theory.
From the study of observables (free energy, anomaly, bulk viscosity) we also
note that for thermodynamic observables the leading order term obtained by such
an expansion in the coupling strongly deviates from the more complete numerical
solution. This can be regarded as yet another sign for general problems of
series expansions in thermal QCD.
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We present results for the strange contribution to the electromagnetic form
factors of the nucleon computed on the CLS ensembles with $N_f=2+1$ flavors of
$\mathcal{O}(a)$-improved Wilson fermions and an $\mathcal{O}(a)$-improved
vector current. Several source-sink separations are investigated in order to
estimate the excited-state contamination. We calculate the form factors on six
ensembles with lattice spacings in the range of $a=0.049-0.086\,\text{fm}$ and
pion masses in the range of $m_\pi=200-360\,\text{MeV}$, which allows for a
controlled chiral and continuum extrapolation. In the computation of the
quark-disconnected contributions we employ hierarchical probing as a variance
reduction technique.
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We provide various schemes for the splitting up of Quantum information into
parts using the four and five partite cluster states. Explicit protocols for
the Quantum information splitting (QIS) of single and two qubit states are
illustrated. It is found that the four partite cluster state can be used for
the QIS of an entangled state and the five partite cluster state can be used
for QIS of an arbitrary two qubit state. The schemes considered here are also
secure against certain eavesdropping attacks.
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In this paper, we study the topological structure of the Hahn field whose
elements are functions from the additive abelian group of rational numbers to
the real numbers field, with well-ordered support. After reviewing the
algebraic and order structures of the Hahn field, we introduce different vector
topologies that are induced by families of semi-norms and all of which are
weaker than the order or valuation topology. We compare those vector topologies
and we identify the weakest one whose properties are similar to those of the
weak topology on the Levi-Civita field. In particular, we state and prove a
convergence criterion for power series that is similar to that for power series
on the Levi-Civita field in its weak topology
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Fake news and misinformation spread in developing countries as fast as they
do in developed countries with increasing penetration of the internet and
social media. However, fighting misinformation is more difficult in developing
countries where resources and necessary technologies are scarce. This study
provides an understanding of the challenges various fact-checking initiatives
face in three South Asian countries--Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. In-depth
interviews were conducted with senior editors of six fact-checking initiatives.
Challenges identified include lack of resources, technologies, and political
pressure. An analysis of Facebook pages of these initiatives shows increasing
user engagement with their posts.
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We present SMILES-embeddings derived from the internal encoder state of a
Transformer [1] model trained to canonize SMILES as a Seq2Seq problem. Using a
CharNN [2] architecture upon the embeddings results in higher quality
interpretable QSAR/QSPR models on diverse benchmark datasets including
regression and classification tasks. The proposed Transformer-CNN method uses
SMILES augmentation for training and inference, and thus the prognosis is based
on an internal consensus. That both the augmentation and transfer learning are
based on embeddings allows the method to provide good results for small
datasets. We discuss the reasons for such effectiveness and draft future
directions for the development of the method. The source code and the
embeddings needed to train a QSAR model are available on
https://github.com/bigchem/transformer-cnn. The repository also has a
standalone program for QSAR prognosis which calculates individual atoms
contributions, thus interpreting the model's result. OCHEM [3] environment
(https://ochem.eu) hosts the on-line implementation of the method proposed.
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The rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the direction of nearby galaxy
clusters is expected to be higher than the mean cosmological rate if
intrinsically faint FRBs are numerous. In this paper, we describe a targeted
search for faint FRBs near the core of the Virgo cluster using the Australian
Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder telescope. During 300 hr of observations, we
discovered one burst, FRB 180417, with dispersion measure DM $=474.8$
cm$^{-3}$pc. The FRB was promptly followed up by several radio telescopes for
27 h, but no repeat bursts were detected. An optical follow-up of FRB 180417
using the PROMPT5 telescope revealed no new sources down to an $R$-band
magnitude of 20.1. We argue that FRB 180417 is likely behind the Virgo cluster
as the Galactic and intracluster DM contribution are small compared to the DM
of the FRB, and there are no galaxies in the line of sight. The non-detection
of FRBs from Virgo constrains the faint-end slope, $\alpha<1.52$ (at 68\%
confidence limit), and the minimum luminosity, $L_{\rm min}\gtrsim 2\times
10^{40}$ erg s$^{-1}$ (at 68\% confidence limit), of the FRB luminosity
function assuming cosmic FRB rate of $10^4$ FRBs sky$^{-1}$ day$^{-1}$ with
flux above 1 Jy located out to redshift of 1. Further FRB surveys of galaxy
clusters with high-sensitivity instruments will tighten the constraints on the
faint end of the luminosity function and, thus, are strongly encouraged.
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I would like to know if anyone know how I can get a copy of the movie, "That's the way of the World". It's been about 30 years since I've seen this movie, and I would like to see it again. Earth Wind & Fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes. It was unfortunate that this group didn't take off like their counterparts in the early 70's, but as previously stated, racial tension existed in the United States which prohibited equalized exposure for the African American musical groups. It is good to see that Earth Wind & Fire continuing their success. I would like to add this movie to my collection. Someone please help me if possible. Thank you for your attention. Milton Shaw
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The people at the top of this corrupt organization sell off their stocks prior to the release of the information and they get away with it because politicians who don't believe in regulations allow and promote this type of activity or they would change it. If my personal information is used illegally, I will hunt down Equifax and make it very personal.
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We present a novel direct transcription method to solve optimization problems
subject to nonlinear differential and inequality constraints. We prove
convergence of our numerical method under reasonably mild assumptions:
boundedness and Lipschitz-continuity of the problem-defining functions. We do
not require uniqueness, differentiability or constraint qualifications to hold
and we avoid the use of Lagrange multipliers. Our approach differs
fundamentally from well-known methods based on collocation; we follow a
penalty-barrier approach, where we compute integral quadratic penalties on the
equality path constraints and point constraints, and integral log-barriers on
the inequality path constraints. The resulting penalty-barrier functional can
be minimized numerically using finite elements and penalty-barrier
interior-point nonlinear programming solvers. Order of convergence results are
derived, even if components of the solution are discontinuous. We also present
numerical results to compare our method against collocation methods. The
numerical results show that for the same degree and mesh, the computational
cost is similar, but that the new method can achieve a smaller error and
converges in cases where collocation methods fail.
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"I am not usually a big reader of the New Adult genre, but this book, and this series, is for every young reader,AND every \\\\\older\\\\\"" reader who remembers what it was like to be young and deeply in love, and still trying to figure out they were and what they wanted."""
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No noticeable benefit for me
Did a 30 day trial with no noticeable benefits (nor any negative side effects) in my case. Everyone is different. Some seem to benefit greatly while others not. We all have our own unique body chemistry and other factors that come into play. Take a 30 day trial run before investing in larger quantities, this product is not cheap by any means.
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False Advertising
I bought this flag on March 2, 2019. It was FINALLY delivered today. I paid an extra $10.95 for shipping because it says made by a VET. We all know it does not cost $10.95 to ship a 3' x 5' nylon flag, but I wanted to support a VET and Made in America!. When I got it, the package said "CHINA POST". This is the biggest scam. I will not recommend this to anyone and will be returning it.
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Recently, ground-based very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy achieved a
remarkable advancement in the development of the observational technique for
the registration and study of gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. Construction of
telescopes of substantially larger sizes than the currently used 12 m class
telescopes can drastically improve the sensitivity of ground-based detectors to
gamma rays of energy from 10 GeV to 100 GeV. Based on Monte Carlo simulations
we have studied the response of an array of three large area imaging
atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) as a prototype for a future large-scale
low energy ground-based experiment. The sensitivity of a three-telescope array
as a function of optical reflector size was investigated here in detail.
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The first and second seasons started off shakily, with good episodes sandwiched in between average ones, and at times resorting to clichéd stories. But once it started to set up the universe in which it exists and started to develop it's characters more, it became a lot more fun and entertaining. <br /><br />The main reason this show succeeds it because of four men: Richard Dean Anderson, Peter Deluise, Joseph Malozzie and Paul Mullie. Richard's dry sense of humour makes to show so much better, Peter's directing is excellent and makes any episode so much more entertaining, and Joe & Paul never fail to make a funny, interesting episode together. <br /><br />Once you understand what the show is about and get to know the characters, I doubt you won't like the show. For those getting into the show I suggest the episodes 'The Other Side', a good serious episode, and 'Window of Opportunity', a classic comic relief episode.
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Police are investigating vandalism that outraged visitors on Monday to Plymouth Rock and other historic sites on the waterfront at Pilgrim Memorial State Park.
Red spray paint was found Monday morning on Plymouth Rock, the National Monument to the Forefathers, the Pilgrim Maiden statue, Chamber of Commerce scallop shells, an amphitheater and a commemorative bench, according to a state Department of Conservation and Recreation spokesman.
“Seeing this type of disrespect for the historic reminders of the Mayflower story is both sad and unsettling,” said Lea Filson, executive director of See Plymouth, a destination management organization for the town and county.
“By the time I made it to the rock, I ran into … around a dozen people from all over Plymouth that had headed down to see it. Everyone was outraged and sick about it. By that time, the rock had been cleaned and there was great relief,” Filson said.
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation reported the incident to the Plymouth Police Department, State Police and the Massachusetts Environmental Police (MEP) and then power washed the graffiti off of Plymouth Rock and the National Monument to the Forefathers, a DCR spokesman said.
The graffiti included the numbers 508 and the letters MOF.
The department was working on Monday afternoon to remove the remainder of the graffiti from the amphitheater, Filson said, and if power washing doesn’t remove it all, DCR will explore other options to remove the paint.
Plymouth Rock is traditionally believed to be the site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620.
“As Plymouth commemorates the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower this year, we have already begun welcoming international and domestic visitors,” Filson said. “The waterfront and the historic district are safe, well-lit and will continue to welcome all who visit.”
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"This week, the bill was clarified to state that it would not allow date-stamping specifically; leaving the door open for expiration for reasons other than “the passage of time alone.” "
And there's the kicker.
They'll still figure out a way to f k us (their customers) but it will be in a more sneaky, subtle manner then an expiry date.
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In these notes, we give a survey of the main results of [BC] and [BW]. Our
aim is to generalize the geometric classification of (one-sided) ideals of the
first Weyl algebra $ A_1(C) $ (see [BW1, BW2]) to the ring $ D(X) $ of
differential operators on an arbitrary complex smooth affine curve X. We
approach this problem in two steps: first, we classify the ideals of D(X) up to
stable isomorphism, in terms of the Picard group of X; then, we refine this
classification by describing each stable isomorphism class as a disjoint union
of (certain quotients of) generalized Calogero-Moser spaces C_n(X, I). The
latter are defined as representation varieties of deformed preprojective
algebras over a one-point extension of the ring of regular functions on X by
the line bundle I. As in the classical case, C_n(X, I) turn out to be smooth
irreducible varieties of dimension 2n.
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1. Lead teachers to lowering the bar? Consistency? Is that what OCISS's true purpose is?
2. I mean where the bus companies were colluding under the noses of the DOE, yes. "Saving the state millions."
3. If DAGS is the joke, then the DOE is the punchline. Have you seen the condition of most schools?
4. Who's hiring and screening all those teachers with inappropriate behaviors? Isn't it DOE Personnel?
5. (Not 6) The AG is the state's legal department. What kind of "in-house DOE assistance" might you be citing? Does the DOE hire its own lawyers?
6. Is OHR "cleaning up the mess" that OHR let grow for decades?
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The DOE has too many middle managers (EOs) and they grow their own work to justify their existence. DOE is the second biggest expenditure of tax dollars, and spends over $16,000 per pupil each year. We are not getting our money's worth.
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The DOE needs a full and comprehensive external AUDIT of its central operations.
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