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  1. S. Fichet, G. von Gersdorff, O. Kepka, B. Lenzi

    The sensitivities to anomalous quartic photon couplings at the Large Hadron Collider are estimated using diphoton production via photon fusion. The tagging of the protons proves to be a very powerful tool to suppress the background and unprecedented sensitivities down to $6 \cdot 10^{-15}$\gev$^{-4}$ are obtained, providing a new window on extra dimensions a

  2. Jie Wu, Chao Xia

    In this paper, we first investigate several rigidity problems for hypersurfaces in the warped product manifolds with constant linear combinations of higher order mean curvatures as well as "weighted'' mean curvatures, which extend the work \cite{Mon, Brendle,BE} considering constant mean curvature functions. Secondly, we obtain the rigidity resul

  3. Velten Heyn, Adrian Paschke

    The semantic expert recommender extension for the Jira bug tracking system semantically searches for similar tickets in Jira and recommends experts and links to existing organizational (Wiki) knowledge for each ticket. This helps to avoid redundant work and supports the search and collaboration with experts in the project management and maintenance phase bas

  4. K. A. Bugaev, D. R. Oliinychenko, V. V. Sagun, A. I. Ivanytskyi

    We propose an elaborate version of the hadron resonance gas model with the combined treatment of separate chemical freeze-outs for strange and non-strange hadrons and with an additional γ_{s} factor which accounts for the remaining strange particle non-equilibration. Two sets of chemical freeze-outs parameters are connected by the conservation laws of entrop

  5. Th. Keil, D. Bauer

    The strong field approximation (SFA) formulated in terms of so-called "quantum orbits" led to much insight into intense-laser driven ionization dynamics. In plain SFA, the emitted electron is treated as a free electron in the laser field alone. However, with improving experimental techniques and more advanced numerical simulations it becomes more and

  6. V. Faramaz, H. Beust, P. Thébault, J. -C. Augereau

    Imaging of debris disks has found evidence for both eccentric and offset disks. One hypothesis is that these provide evidence for massive perturbers that sculpt the observed structures. One such disk was recently observed in the far-IR by the Herschel Space Observatory around $ζ^2$ Ret. In contrast with previously reported systems, the disk is significantly

  7. Sho Sugiura, Akira Shimizu

    We formulate statistical mechanics based on a pure quantum state, which we call a ``thermal pure quantum (TPQ) state''. A single TPQ state gives not only equilibrium values of mechanical variables, such as magnetization and correlation functions, but also those of genuine thermodynamic variables and thermodynamic functions, such as entropy and free e

  8. David Bachiller, Ferran Cedo

    A new method to construct involutive non-degenerate set-theoretic solutions $(X^n,r^{(n)})$ of the Yang-Baxter equation from an initial solution $(X,r)$ is given. Furthermore, the permutation group $\mathcal{G}(X^n,r^{(n)})$ associated to the solution $(X^n,r^{(n)})$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $\mathcal{G}(X,r)$, and in many cases $\mathcal{G}(X^n,r^{(n)

  9. John W. Lau

    This article constructs a class of random probability measures based on exponentially and polynomially tilting operated on the laws of completely random measures. The class is proved to be conjugate in that it covers both prior and posterior random probability measures in the Bayesian sense. Moreover, the class includes some common and widely used random pro

  10. Benjamin Bechtold

    We give an intrinsic characterization of Cox sheaves on Krull schemes in terms of their valuative algebraic properties. We also provide a geometric characterization of their graded relative spectra in terms of good quotients of graded schemes, extending the work of Arzhantsev, Derenthal, Hausen and Laface on relative spectra of Cox sheaves on normal varietie

  11. Uwe Bäsel

    In the first part of this paper, we obtain symmetric formulae for the probabilities that a plane convex body hits exactly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 triangles of a lattice of congruent triangles in the plane. Furthermore, a very simple formula for the expectation of the number of hit triangles is derived. In the second part, we calculate the hitting probabilities in

  12. Daniele Barducci, Stefania De Curtis, Stefano Moretti, Giovanni Marco Pruna

    In this proceeding, we extend a previous analysis concerning the prospects of a future electron-positron collider in testing the 4-Dimensional Composite Higgs Model. In particular, we introduce two motivated benchmarks and study them in Higgs-Strahlung, for three possible energy stages and different luminosity options of such a machine and confront our resul

  13. Horst Balthasar, Christian Beck, Rohan E. Louis, Meetu Verma

    Sunspots, which harbor both magnetic polarities within one penumbra, are called delta-spots. They are often associated with flares. Nevertheless, there are only very few detailed observations of the spatially resolved magnetic field configuration. We present an investigation performed with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter at the Vacuum Tower Telescope in Te

  14. A M Semikhatov, I Yu Tipunin

    We construct all projective modules of the restricted quantum group $\bar{U}_q s\ell(2|1)$ at an even, $2p$th, root of unity. This $64p^4$-dimensional Hopf algebra is a common double bosonization, $B(X^*)\otimes B(X)\otimes H$, of two rank-2 Nichols algebras $B(X)$ with fermionic generator(s), with $H=Z_{2p}\otimes Z_{2p}$. The category of $\bar{U}_q s\ell(2

  15. Szymon Charzyński, Marek Kuś

    We show that the non-linear autonomus Wei-Norman equations, expressing the solution of a linear system of non-autonomous equations on a Lie algebra, can be reduced to the hierarchy of matrix Riccati equations in the case of all classical simple Lie algebras. The result generalizes our previous one concerning the complex Lie algebra of the special linear grou

  16. Paul Fogel

    Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, NMF, attempts to find a number of archetypal response profiles, or parts, such that any sample profile in the dataset can be approximated by a close profile among these archetypes or a linear combination of these profiles. The non-negativity constraint is imposed while estimating archetypal profiles, due to the non-negative

  17. Abdelaati Daouia, Laurent Gardes, Stéphane Girard

    Nonparametric regression quantiles obtained by inverting a kernel estimator of the conditional distribution of the response are long established in statistics. Attention has been, however, restricted to ordinary quantiles staying away from the tails of the conditional distribution. The purpose of this paper is to extend their asymptotic theory far enough int

  18. Polina Zemko, Marina Orio

    Four VY Scl-type nova-like systems were observed in X-rays both during the low and the high optical states. They are BZ Cam, MV Lyr, TT Ari, and V794 Aql. Using archival ROSAT, Swift and SUZAKU observations we found that the X-ray flux for BZ Cam is higher during the low state, but there is no supersoft X-ray source (SSS) that would indicate the thermonuclea

  19. E. K. Irish, J. Gea-Banacloche

    The familiar Rabi model, comprising a two-level system coupled to a quantum harmonic oscillator, continues to produce rich and surprising physics when the coupling strength becomes comparable to the individual subsystem frequencies. We construct approximate solutions for the regime in which the oscillator frequency is small compared to that of the two-level

  20. Giulia Di Nunno, Steffen Sjursen

    We study backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) for time-changed Lévy noises when the time-change is independent of the Lévy process. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution and we obtain an explicit formula for linear BSDEs and a comparison principle. BSDEs naturally appear in control problems. Here we prove a sufficient maximum princi

  21. Bartłomiej Dyda, Lizaveta Ihnatsyeva, Antti V. Vähäkangas

    We prove a certain improved fractional Sobolev-Poincaré inequality on John domains; the proof is based on the equivalence of the corresponding weak and strong type inequalities. We also give necessary conditions for the validity of an improved fractional Sobolev-Poincaré inequality, in particular, we show that a domain having a finite measure and satisfying

  22. Francisco M. Fernández, Javier Garcia

    We show that a recently developed semiclassical expansion for the eigenvalues of PT-symmetric oscillators of the form $V(x)=(ix)^{2N+1}+bix$ does not agree with an earlier WKB expression for $V(x)=-(ix)^{2N+1}$ the case $b=0$. The reason is due to the choice of different paths in the complex plane for the calculation of the WKB integrals. We compare the Stok

  23. Giulia Di Nunno, Asma Khedher, Michele Vanmaele

    We consider a backward stochastic differential equation with jumps (BSDEJ) which is driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure. We present two candidate-approximations to this BSDEJ and we prove that the solution of each candidate- approximation converges to the solution of the original BSDEJ in a space which we specify. We use this result to i

  24. Hock Peng Chan, Tze Leung Lai

    By making use of martingale representations, we derive the asymptotic normality of particle filters in hidden Markov models and a relatively simple formula for their asymptotic variances. Although repeated resamplings result in complicated dependence among the sample paths, the asymptotic variance formula and martingale representations lead to consistent est

  25. R. Caciuffo, P. Santini, S. Carretta, G. Amoretti

    We report the results of inelastic neutron scattering experiments performed with triple-axis spectrometers to investigate the low-temperature collective dynamics in the ordered phase of uranium dioxide. The results are in excellent agreement with the predictions of mean-field RPA calculations emphasizing the importance of multipolar superexchange interaction

  26. Shuvam Sen

    In this article, we have developed a higher order compact numerical method for variable coefficient parabolic problems with mixed derivatives. The finite difference scheme, presented here for two-dimensional domains, is based on fourth order spatial discretization. The time discretization has been carried out using using second order Crank-Nicolson. The pres

  27. Dominik Kowald, Paul Seitlinger, Christoph Trattner, Tobias Ley

    In this paper, we introduce a tag recommendation algorithm that mimics the way humans draw on items in their long-term memory. This approach uses the frequency and recency of previous tag assignments to estimate the probability of reusing a particular tag. Using three real-world folksonomies gathered from bookmarks in BibSonomy, CiteULike and Flickr, we show

  28. Yi-Ping Qin, Zhi-Fu Chen

    The $L_p - E_p$ relation is a well-known relation in gamma-ray bursts. Its implication remains unclear. We propose to investigate the underlying mechanisms of this relation by considering the corresponding kinetic and dynamic mechanisms separately. In this way, one can tell how much the kinetic or dynamic mechanism contributes to the index of the relationshi

  29. E. Affum, E. T. Tchao, K. Diawuo, K. Agyekum

    Recently, applications of millimeter (mm) waves for high-speed broadband wireless local area network communication systems in indoor environment are increasingly gaining recognition as it provides gigabit-speed wireless communications with carrier-class performances over distances of a mile or more due to spectrum availability and wider bandwidth requirement

  30. Massimo Giulietti, Gabor Korchmaros

    Let $S$ be a $p$-subgroup of the $\K$-automorphism group $\aut(\cX)$ of an algebraic curve $\cX$ of genus $\gg\ge 2$ and $p$-rank $γ$ defined over an algebraically closed field $\mathbb{K}$ of characteristic $p\geq 3$.In this paper we prove that if $|S|>2(\gg-1)$ then one of the following cases occurs. \begin{itemize} \item[(i)] $γ=0$ and the extension $\K(\

  31. Martin Franzen

    We consider flows with normal velocities equal to powers strictly larger than one of the Gauss curvature. Under such flows closed strictly convex surfaces converge to points. In his work on the square of the norm of the second fundamental form, Schnürer proposes criteria for selecting quantities that are suitable for proving convergence to a round point. Suc

  32. Toni Ernvall

    In this paper distributed storage systems with exact repair are studied. A construction for regenerating codes between the minimum storage regenerating (MSR) and the minimum bandwidth regenerating (MBR) points is given. To the best of author's knowledge, no previous construction of exact-regenerating codes between MBR and MSR points is done except in the

  33. Francesco Bonchi, David García-Soriano, Konstantin Kutzkov

    Correlation clustering is perhaps the most natural formulation of clustering. Given $n$ objects and a pairwise similarity measure, the goal is to cluster the objects so that, to the best possible extent, similar objects are put in the same cluster and dissimilar objects are put in different clusters. Despite its theoretical appeal, the practical relevance of

  34. A. Nowicki, V. M. Tkachuk

    The relation between nonlinear algebras and linear ones is established. For one-dimensional nonlinear deformed Heisenberg algebra with two operators we find the function of deformation for which this nonlinear algebra can be transformed to a linear one with three operators. We also establish the relation between Lie algebra of total angular momentum and corr

  35. Ping-Shou Zhong, Song Xi Chen, Minya Xu

    We consider two alternative tests to the Higher Criticism test of Donoho and Jin [Ann. Statist. 32 (2004) 962-994] for high-dimensional means under the sparsity of the nonzero means for sub-Gaussian distributed data with unknown column-wise dependence. The two alternative test statistics are constructed by first thresholding $L_1$ and $L_2$ statistics based

  36. Hubert Halloin, Pierre Prat, Julien Brossard

    We report here the characterization (temperature coefficients and noise level) of selected voltage references in the frequency range from 10^(-5) to 10 Hz. The goal of this work is to update previous studies, with a characterization at lower frequencies, and find voltage references that may be suitable for the space-based interferometry mission eLISA. The re

  37. J. Elliott, H. -F. Yu, S. Schmidl, J. Greiner

    Since the advent of the Swift satellite it has been possible to obtain precise localisations of GRB positions of sub-arcsec accuracy within seconds, facilitating ground-based robotic telescopes to automatically slew to the target within seconds. This has yielded a plethora of observational data for the afterglow phase of the GRB, but the quantity of data (<2

  38. Vittorio Del Duca, Giulio Falcioni, Lorenzo Magnea, Leonardo Vernazza

    The high-energy factorization of gauge theory scattering amplitudes in terms of universal impact factors and a Reggeized exchange in the $t$-channel, corresponding to a Regge pole in the angular momentum plane, is know to conflict with the structure of soft anomalous dimensions starting at the two-loop level. We explore the implications of this violation of

  39. Alexander Darer, Peter Lewis

    Video games can be used as an excellent test bed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. They are challenging and non-deterministic, this makes it very difficult to write strong AI players. An example of such a video game is Ms. Pac-Man. In this paper we will outline some of the previous techniques used to build AI controllers for Ms. Pac-Man as well as

  40. E. T. Tchao, K. Diawuo, W. K. Ofosu, E. Affum

    With the increasing demand for mobile data services, Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is emerging as one of the fastest growing areas within mobile communications. Innovative wireless communication systems, such as WiMAX, are expected to offer highly reliable broadband radio access in order to meet the increasing demands of emerging high speed data and multim

  41. Liang Shi, Bjoern Hof, Andreas Tilgner

    Coriolis force effects on shear flows are important in geophysical and astrophysical contexts. We here report a study on the linear stability and the transient energy growth of the plane Couette flow with system rotation perpendicular to the shear direction. External rotation causes linear instability. At small rotation rates, the onset of linear instability

  42. M. Batra, A. Upadhyay

    The statistical model is implemented to find the magnetic moments of all octet baryons. The well-known sum rules like GMO and CG sum rules has been checked in order to check the consistency of our approach. The small discrepancy between the results suggests the importance of breaking in SU(3) symmetry.

  43. Vinzenz Koning, Benjamin C. van Zuiden, Randall D. Kamien, Vincenzo Vitelli

    We present a theoretical study of director fields in toroidal geometries with degenerate planar boundary conditions. We find spontaneous chirality: despite the achiral nature of nematics the director configuration show a handedness if the toroid is thick enough. In the chiral state the director field displays a double twist, whereas in the achiral state ther

  44. G. L. Alfimov, A. S. Malishevskii, E. V. Medvedeva

    We study a model of Josephson layered structure which is characterized by two peculiarities: (i) superconducting layers are thin; (ii) due to suppression of superconducting states in superconducting layers the current-phase relation is non-sinusoidal and is described by two sine harmonics. The governing equation is a nonlocal generalization of double sine-Go

  45. M. A. Ratner, A. V. Tur, V. V. Yanovsky

    This work is devoted to molecular dynamics modeling of collision of nanoparticle having a small number of degrees of freedom with a structureless plain. The new regularities are established that determine properties of such particles. Generalized collision law is obtained where particle properties are determined by two coefficient, on of which corresponds to

  46. N. Kitanine, K. K. Kozlowski, J. M. Maillet, V. Terras

    We provide a microscopic model setting that allows us to readily access to the large-distance asymptotic behaviour of multi-point correlation functions in massless, one-dimensional, quantum models. The method of analysis we propose is based on the form factor expansion of the correlation functions and does not build on any field theory reasonings. It constit

  47. K. Beuermann, S. Dreizler, F. V. Hessman, U. Backhaus

    We report photometric observations of the eclipsing close binary CSS21055 (SDSS J141126+200911) that strongly suggest that the companion to the carbon-oxygen white dwarf is a brown dwarf with a mass between 0.030 and 0.074 Msun. The measured orbital period is 121.73min and the totality of the eclipse lasts 125s. If confirmed, CSS21055 would be the first deta

  48. Peng Yinghua, Zhang Xinying, Sha Peng, Pan Weimin

    The 325MHz, β=0.40 superconducting single spoke cavity (Spoke040) was one of the most challenges for the China-ADS (Accelerator Driven System) project. The design was finished, and the fabrication was in progressing. In this paper, we studied the main radio frequency (RF) and mechanical parameters, and compared the arc-shaped and plate-shaped end group struc

  49. Rahul Mukerjee, Boxin Tang

    Quaternary code (QC) designs form an attractive class of nonregular factorial fractions. We develop a complementary set theory for characterizing optimal QC designs that are highly fractionated in the sense of accommodating a large number of factors. This is in contrast to existing theoretical results which work only for a relatively small number of factors.

  50. N. Clausen, A. Tilgner

    Elliptical instability is due to a parametric resonance of two inertial modes in a fluid velocity field with elliptical streamlines. This flow is a simple model of the motion in a tidally deformed, rotating body. Elliptical instability typically leads to three-dimensional turbulence. The associated turbulent dissipation together with the dissipation of the l

  51. Raymond J. Carroll, Aurore Delaigle, Peter Hall

    The data functions that are studied in the course of functional data analysis are assembled from discrete data, and the level of smoothing that is used is generally that which is appropriate for accurate approximation of the conceptually smooth functions that were not actually observed. Existing literature shows that this approach is effective, and even opti

  52. Chiara Tonini, Heath Jones, Jeremy Mould, Rachel Webster

    (Abridged) We investigate the morphology dependence of the Tully-Fisher relation, and the expansion of the relation into a three-dimensional manifold defined by luminosity, total circular velocity and a third dynamical parameter, to fully characterise spiral galaxies across all morphological types. We use a semi-analytic hierarchical model of galaxy evolutio

  53. Wolfgang John, Kostas Pentikousis, George Agapiou, Eduardo Jacob

    Network Service Chaining (NSC) is a service deployment concept that promises increased flexibility and cost efficiency for future carrier networks. NSC has received considerable attention in the standardization and research communities lately. However, NSC is largely undefined in the peer-reviewed literature. In fact, a literature review reveals that the rol

  54. Roberto Soler, Marcel Goossens, Jaume Terradas, Ramon Oliver

    Seismology of coronal loops using observations of damped transverse oscillations in combination with results from theoretical models is a tool to indirectly infer physical parameters in the solar atmospheric plasma. Existing seismology schemes based on approximations to the period and damping time of kink oscillations are often used beyond their theoretical

  55. Taras Banakh

    This text contains lecture notes of the course taught to Ph.D. students of Jagiellonian University in Krakow on 25-28 November, 2013.

  56. Enrico Leuzinger

    We prove a Gauss-Bonnet theorem for (finite coverings of) moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces endowed with the McMullen metric. The proof uses properties of an exhaustion of moduli spaces by compact submanifolds with corners and the Gauss-Bonnet formula of Allendoerfer and Weil for Riemannian polyhedra.

  57. Emiliano Molinaro

    We summarize the phenomenological constraints on seesaw scenarios defined at the TeV scale and provide a simple extension of the Standard Model which naturally leads to a testable mechanism of neutrino mass generation.

  58. V. V. Sargsyan, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, W. Scheid

    We suggest simple and useful method to extract breakup probabilities from the experimental elastic backscattering probabilities in the reactions with toughly and weakly bound nuclei.

  59. Anne Balter, Antoon Pelsser, Peter Schotman

    Pricing extremely long-dated liabilities market consistently deals with the decline in liquidity of financial instruments on long maturities. The aim is to quantify the uncertainty of rates up to maturities of a century. We assume that the interest rates follow the affine mean-reverting Vasicek model. We model parameter uncertainty by Bayesian distributions

  60. Helen Ebbe, Stefan Wolf

    Quantum theory puts forward phenomena unexplainable by classical physics - or information, for that matter. A prominent example is non-locality. Non-local correlations cannot be explained, in classical terms, by shared information but only by communication. On the other hand, the phenomenon does not allow for (potentially faster-than-light) message transmiss

  61. Yingjie Zhang, Wei Han, Yunjie Xia, Junpeng Cao

    We investigate the generic bound on the minimal evolution time of the open dynamical quantum system. This quantum speed limit time is applicable to both mixed and pure initial states. We then apply this result to the damped Jaynes-Cummings model and the Ohimc-like dephasing model starting from a general time-evolution state. The bound of this time-dependent

  62. Claudio Bonati, Massimo D&#39;Elia, Marco Mariti, Francesco Negro

    Recently much work has been devoted to the study of QCD coupled to a background magnetic field. Strongly interacting matter acts as a magnetic medium and it is natural to study the properties of this medium, in particular to understand if it behaves like a diamagnetic or a paramagnetic material. A serious difficulty in studying these properties by means of L

  63. Yutaka Komiya, Takuma Suda, Masayuki Fujimoto

    Recent numerical studies argue that low-mass stars can be formed even at zero-metallicity environment. These low-mass Population III(Pop.~III) stars are thought to be still shining and able to be observed in the Local Universe. Most low-mass Pop.~III stars are thought to be formed as secondary companions in binary systems. They can be escaped from their host

  64. Jianbin Liu, Yu Zhou, Fu-Li Li, Zhuo Xu

    Two-photon anticorrelation is observed when laser and pseudothermal light beams are incident to the two input ports of a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer, respectively. The spatial second-order interference pattern of laser and pseudothermal light beams is reported. Temporal Hong-Ou-Mandel dip is also observed when these two detectors are at the symmetrical pos

  65. Anita Das, P. Suresh, S. V. Subrahmanya

    Let $G$ be an edge colored graph. A {\it}{rainbow path} in $G$ is a path in which all the edges are colored with distinct colors. Let $d^c(v)$ be the color degree of a vertex $v$ in $G$, i.e. the number of distinct colors present on the edges incident on the vertex $v$. Let $t$ be the maximum length of a rainbow path in $G$. Chen and Li showed that if $d^c \

  66. Stéphan Clémençon, Marine Depecker

    It is the main goal of this article to address the bipartite ranking issue from the perspective of functional data analysis (FDA). Given a training set of independent realizations of a (possibly sampled) second-order random function with a (locally) smooth autocorrelation structure and to which a binary label is randomly assigned, the objective is to learn a

  67. P. S. Goyal, P. D. Babu, F. Juranyi

    Specific heat of dipolar glasses does not obey Debye law. It is of interest to know if the non-Debye specific heat can be accounted for in terms of Schottky-type specific heat arising from rotational tunneling states of the dipoles. This paper deals with rotational tunneling spectra of NH$_{4}^{+}$ ions and the non-Debye specific heat of mixed salts (e.g. (N

  68. J. M. Hornibrook, J. I. Colless, A. C. Mahoney, X. G. Croot

    We demonstrate a low loss, chip-level frequency multiplexing scheme for readout of scaled-up spin qubit devices. By integrating separate bias tees and resonator circuits on-chip for each readout channel, we realize dispersive gate-sensing in combination with charge detection based on two rf quantum point contacts (rf-QPCs). We apply this approach to perform

  69. Hugo Reinhardt, Jan Heffner

    The effective potential of the order parameter for confinement is calculated within the variational approach to the Hamilton formulation of Yang-Mills theory. Compactifying one spatial dimension and using a background gauge fixing this potential is obtained by minimizing the energy density for a given constant and color diagonal background field directed alo

  70. W. Desrat, B. A. Piot, S. Krämer, D. K. Maude

    The frequency splitting between the dip and the peak of the resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance (RDNMR) dispersive line shape (DLS) has been measured in the quantum Hall effect regime as a function of filling factor, carrier density and nuclear isotope. The splitting increases as the filling factor tends to ν = 1 and is proportional to the hyperf

  71. Marco Kuhrmann, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Jürgen Münch

    Most university curricula consider software processes to be on the fringes of software engineering (SE). Students are told there exists a plethora of software processes ranging from RUP over V-shaped processes to agile methods. Furthermore, the usual students&#39; programming tasks are of a size that either one student or a small group of students can manage

  72. Fabian Fagerholm, Nilay Oza, Jürgen Münch

    Teaching distributed software development (DSD) in project courses where student teams are geographically distributed promises several benefits. One main benefit is that in contrast to traditional classroom courses, students can experience the effects of distribution and the mechanisms for coping with distribution by themselves, therefore understanding their

  73. Philippe Blanchard, Dimitri Volchenkov

    Urbanization has been the dominant demographic trend in the entire world, during the last half century. Rural to urban migration, international migration, and the re-classification or expansion of existing city boundaries have been among the major reasons for increasing urban population. The essentially fast growth of cities in the last decades urgently call

  74. Y. Li, J. Qiu, M. D. Ding

    We investigate heating and evolution of flare loops in a C4.7 two-ribbon flare on 2011 February 13. From SDO/AIA imaging observations, we can identify two sets of loops. Hinode/EIS spectroscopic observations reveal blueshifts at the feet of both sets of loops. The evolution and dynamics of the two sets are quite different. The first set of loops exhibits blu

  75. Marian Aprodu

    This paper is a continuation of arXiv:1205.4415. We focus on non-K3 surfaces providing some improvements of known results.

  76. Elisabeth Waldmann, Fabian Sobotka, Thomas Kneib

    Regression classes modeling more than the mean of the response have found a lot of attention in the last years. Expectile regression is a special and computationally convenient case of this family of models. Expectiles offer a quantile-like characterisation of a complete distribution and include the mean as a special case. In the frequentist framework the im

  77. Kurando Baba

    We list up all the possible local orbit types of hyperbolic or elliptic orbits for the isotropy representations of semisimple pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces. It is key to give a recipe to determine the local orbit types of hyperbolic principal orbits by using three kind of restricted root systems and Satake diagrams associated with semisimple pseudo-Riem

  78. Kyung-Min Lee, Chul Min Kim, Shunsuke A. Sato, Tomohito Otobe

    A computational method based on a first-principles multiscale simulation has been used for calculating the optical response and the ablation threshold of an optical material irradiated with an ultrashort intense laser pulse. The method employs Maxwell&#39;s equations to describe laser pulse propagation and time-dependent density functional theory to describe

  79. Liang Chen, Yipeng Zhou, Dah Ming Chiu

    Online video-on-demand(VoD) services invariably maintain a view count for each video they serve, and it has become an important currency for various stakeholders, from viewers, to content owners, advertizers, and the online service providers themselves. There is often significant financial incentive to use a robot (or a botnet) to artificially create fake vi

  80. F. D&#39;Ammando, M. Orienti, J. Finke, J. Larsson

    The discovery of gamma-ray emission from 5 radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies revealed the presence of a possible emerging third class of AGNs with relativistic jets, in addition to blazars and radio galaxies. The existence of relativistic jets also in this subclass of Seyfert galaxies opened an unexplored research space for our knowledge of the radio

  81. S. N. Dolya

    The article considers an opportunity of electrodynamics accelerating the magnetic dipoles at initial velocity six hundred meters per second, which is the magnetic dipole gain after pre-gas-dynamic acceleration to finite velocity eight and half kilometers per second. The acceleration length is more than two kilometers. When selecting the drag coefficient and

  82. Anupriya Gogna, Akash Tayal

    Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristic techniques that derive inspiration from the natural process of evolution. They can efficiently solve (generate acceptable quality of solution in reasonable time) complex optimization (NP-Hard) problems. In this paper, automatic image enhancement is considered as an optimization problem and three evolutionary algorith

  83. Taku Kanazawa

    We establish partial regularity for vector-valued solutions to parabolic systems where the coefficients are possibly discontinuous with respect to (x,t). More precisely, we assume a VMO-condition with respect to the (x,t) and continuity with respect to u and prove Hölder continuity of the solutions outside of singular sets.

  84. Gian Paolo Beretta

    With reference to two general probabilistic description frameworks, Information Theory and Classical Statistical Mechanics, we discuss the geometrical reasoning and mathematical formalism leading to the differential equation that defines in probability space the smooth path of Steepest Entropy Ascent (SEA) connecting an arbitrary initial probability distribu

  85. Zhen-Qing Chen, Jian Wang

    In this paper we study the ergodicity and the related semigroup property for a class of symmetric Markov jump processes associated with time changed symmetric $α$-stable processes. For this purpose, explicit and sharp criteria for Poincaré type inequalities (including Poincaré, super Poincaré and weak Poincaré inequalities) of the corresponding non-local Dir

  86. Hyunyong Lee, Stefan Kettemann

    We study the density of states and the optical conductivity of a Kondo lattice which is immersed in a massless Dirac Fermi sea, as characterized by a linear dispersion relation. As a result of the hybridization $V$ with the $f$-electron levels, the pseudo-gap in the conduction band becomes duplicated and is shifted both into the upper and the lower quasipart

  87. Takao Kitaguchi, Hongjun An, Andrei M. Beloborodov, Eric V. Gotthelf

    AE Aquarii is a cataclysmic variable with the fastest known rotating magnetized white dwarf (P_spin = 33.08 s). Compared to many intermediate polars, AE Aquarii shows a soft X-ray spectrum with a very low luminosity (L_X ~ 10^{31} erg/s). We have analyzed overlapping observations of this system with the NuSTAR and the Swift X-ray observatories in September o

  88. Rodrigo Bañuelos, Adam Osekowski

    Let $X$ be a supermartingale starting from $0$ which has only nonnegative jumps. For each $0<p<1$ we determine the best constants $c_p$, $C_p$ and $\mathfrak{c}_p$ such that $$ \,\,\,\,\sup_{t\geq 0}\left|\left|X_t\right|\right|_p\leq C_p\left|\left|-\inf_{t\geq 0}X_t\right|\right|_p,$$ $$ \,\,||\sup_{t\geq 0}X_t||_p\leq c_p\left|\left|-\inf_{t\geq 0}X_t\rig

  89. Kenichi Shimizu, Michihisa Wakui

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  90. M. Ryzhii, V. Ryzhii, T. Otsuji, P. P. Maltsev

    We evaluate the effect of the recombination associated with interlayer transitions in ungated and gated double-graphene-layer (GL) structures on the injection of electrons and holes. Using the proposed model, we derive analytical expressions for the spatial distributions of the electron and hole Fermi energies and the energy gap between the Dirac points in G

  91. V. V. Vien, H. N. Long

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  92. Tomofumi Fujiwara, Tetsushi Kamegawa, Akio Gofuku

    We have implemented a method that detects planar regions from 3D scan data using Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm to address the issue of a trade-off between the scanning speed and the point density of 3D scanning. However, the limitation of the implemented method has not been clear yet. In this paper, we conducted an additional experiment to evalu

  93. Meline Baghdasarian, Arturo Pacheco-Vega, J. Rafael Pacheco, Roberto Verzicco

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  94. R. G. Mani, A. Kriisa

    Negative diagonal magneto-conductivity/resistivity is a spectacular- and thought provoking- property of driven, far-from-equilibrium, low dimensional electronic systems. The physical response of this exotic electronic state is not yet fully understood since it is rarely encountered in experiment. The microwave-radiation-induced zero-resistance state in the h

  95. Shari Breen, Simon Ellingsen, James Caswell, James Green

    We present the third instalment of a series of catalogues presenting 12.2-GHz methanol maser observations made towards each of the 6.7-GHz methanol masers detected in the Methanol Multibeam (MMB) Survey. The current portion of the catalogue includes the Galactic longitude region 10 to 20 degrees, where we detect 47 12.2-GHz methanol masers towards 99 6.7-GHz

  96. Matt Wytock, J. Zico Kolter

    We propose a new framework for single-channel source separation that lies between the fully supervised and unsupervised setting. Instead of supervision, we provide input features for each source signal and use convex methods to estimate the correlations between these features and the unobserved signal decomposition. We analyze the case of $\ell_2$ loss theor

  97. Zhen Qin, Vaclav Petricek, Nikos Karampatziakis, Lihong Li

    Bootstrapping is a useful technique for estimating the uncertainty of a predictor, for example, confidence intervals for prediction. It is typically used on small to moderate sized datasets, due to its high computation cost. This work describes a highly scalable online bootstrapping strategy, implemented inside Vowpal Wabbit, that is several times faster tha

  98. Robert P. Schneider

    A new musical scale devised by the author, based on natural logarithms, is described. Most of the logarithmic pitches bear no correspondence to the twelve tones of the ancient tuning system attributed to Pythagoras, based on ratios of whole numbers, nor to the chromatic tones of scales in equal temperament used widely in the modern era. Logarithms obey a spe

  99. Hongwei Lou

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  100. Stephan Ramon Garcia, William T. Ross

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