March 2017 arXiv papers — page 8

M. G. G. T. Taylor, N. Altobelli, B. J. Buratti, M. Choukroun

The International Rosetta Mission was launched in 2004 and consists of the orbiter spacecraft Rosetta and the lander Philae. The aim of the mission is to map the comet 67P Churyumov Gerasimenko by remote sensing, to examine its environment insitu and its evolution in the inner solar system.Rosetta was the first spacecraft to rendezvous and orbit a comet, acc

Madhu Priya, Yitzhak Rabin

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the behavior of a compressible Lennard-Jones fluid in simple shear flow in a two-dimensional nanochannel. The system is equilibrated in the fluid phase close to the triple point at which gas, liquid and solid phases coexist and is subjected to steady shear in Couette geometry. It is observed that at higher shear

A. K. Bhuniya, Sushobhan Maity

In this paper, we introduce a graph structure called linear dependence graph of a finite dimensional vector space over a finite field. Some basic properties of the graph like connectedness, completeness, planarity, clique number, chromatic number etc. have been studied. It is shown that two vector spaces are isomorphic if and only if their corresponding line

Abhinav Madahar, Yuze Ma, Kunal Patel

Machine learning is increasingly prevalent in stock market trading. Though neural networks have seen success in computer vision and natural language processing, they have not been as useful in stock market trading. To demonstrate the applicability of a neural network in stock trading, we made a single-layer neural network that recommends buying or selling sh

J. -B. Melin, A. Bonaldi, M. Remazeilles, S. Hagstotz

We examine the cosmological constraints that can be achieved with a galaxy cluster survey with the future CORE space mission. Using realistic simulations of the millimeter sky, produced with the latest version of the Planck Sky Model, we characterize the CORE cluster catalogues as a function of the main mission performance parameters. We pay particular atten

E. Ziegerer, U. Heber, S. Geier, A. Irrgang

Important tracers for the dark matter halo of the Galaxy are hypervelocity stars (HVSs), which are faster than the local escape velocity of the Galaxy and their slower counterparts, the high-velocity stars in the Galactic halo. Such HVSs are believed to be ejected from the Galactic Centre (GC) through tidal disruption of a binary by the super-massive black h

Yisroel Mirsky, Mordechai Guri, Yuval Elovici

Modern corporations physically separate their sensitive computational infrastructure from public or other accessible networks in order to prevent cyber-attacks. However, attackers still manage to infect these networks, either by means of an insider or by infiltrating the supply chain. Therefore, an attacker's main challenge is to determine a way to comma

Nicolas Meunier, Nicolas Muller

We present here a population structured model to describe the dynamics of macrophage cells. The model involves the interactions between modified LDL, monocytes/macrophages, cytokines and foam cells. The key assumption is that the individual macrophage dynamics depends on the amount of lipoproteins it has internalized. The obtained renewal equation is coupled

Jaron T. Krogel, Paul R. C. Kent

Growth in computational resources has lead to the application of real space diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) to increasingly heavy elements. Although generally assumed to be small, we find that when using standard techniques the pseudopotential localization error can be large, on the order of an electron volt for an isolated cerium atom. We formally show

Eve Armstrong

We use a feed-forward artificial neural network with back-propagation through a single hidden layer to predict Barry Cottonfield's likely reply to this author's invitation to the "Once Upon a Daydream" junior prom at the Conard High School gymnasium back in 1997. To examine the network's ability to generalize to such a situation beyond sp

Jiashi Feng

We consider the problems of robust PAC learning from distributed and streaming data, which may contain malicious errors and outliers, and analyze their fundamental complexity questions. In particular, we establish lower bounds on the communication complexity for distributed robust learning performed on multiple machines, and on the space complexity for robus

Jiri Hofbrucker, Andrey V. Volotka, Stephan Fritzsche

Relativistic effects in the non-resonant two-photon K-shell ionization of neutral atoms are studied theoretically within the framework of second-order perturbation theory. The non-relativistic results are compared with the relativistic calculations in the dipole and no-pair approximations as well as with the complete relativistic approach. The calculations a

Luca Del Zanna, Barbara Olmi

Pulsar Wind Nebulae, and the Crab nebula in particular, are the best cosmic laboratories to investigate the dynamics of magnetized relativistic outflows and particle acceleration up to PeV energies. Multidimensional MHD modeling by means of numerical simulations has been very successful at reproducing, to the very finest details, the innermost structure of t

Akira Imakura, Yusaku Yamamoto

The modified Gram-Schmidt (MGS) orthogonalization is one of the most well-used algorithms for computing the thin QR factorization. MGS can be straightforwardly extended to a non-standard inner product with respect to a symmetric positive definite matrix $A$. For the thin QR factorization of an $m \times n$ matrix with the non-standard inner product, a naive

Przemyslaw Brzykcy

The Lie algebra of the Poincaré-Maxwell group is derived in a manner that provides the interpretation of the equations of motion. It is clarified that the dynamics obtained from the orbit method is exactly equivalent to the classical description of the charged particle moving in the constant electromagnetic field. The multiplicity of the coadjoint orbits of

Antonio Tadeu A. Gomes, Weslley S. Pereira, Frederic Valentin, Diego Paredes

The family of Multiscale Hybrid-Mixed (MHM) finite element methods has received considerable attention from the mathematics and engineering community in the last few years. The MHM methods allow solving highly heterogeneous problems on coarse meshes while providing solutions with high-order precision. It embeds independent local problems which are responsibl

Leon Loveridge, Takayuki Miyadera, Paul Busch

We propose that observables in quantum theory are properly understood as representatives of symmetry-invariant quantities relating one system to another, the latter to be called a reference system. We provide a rigorous mathematical language to introduce and study quantum reference systems, showing that the orthodox "absolute" quantities are good rep

Gaetano Sardina, Francesco Picano, Philip Schlatter, Luca Brandt

We present the results of a Direct Numerical Simulation of a particle-laden spatially developing turbulent boundary layer up to Reθ = 2500. Two main features differentiate the behavior of inertial particles in a zero- pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer from the more commonly studied case of a parallel channel flow. The first is the variation along th

Michael B. Lund

Large time-domain surveys, when of sufficient scale, provide a greatly increased probability of detecting rare and, in many cases, unexpected events. Indeed, it is these unpredicted and previously unobserved objects that can lead to some of the greatest leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. The events that may be monitored include not only those that hel

Vik S. Kulikov

We prove that the monodromy group of the inflection points of plane curves of degree $d$ is the symmetric group $\mathbb S_{3d(d-2)}$ for $d\geq 4$ and in the case $d=3$ this group is the group of the projective transformations of $\mathbb P^2$ leaving invariant the nine inflection points of the Fermat curve of degree three.

Alejandro Ramos-Soto, Jose M. Alonso, Ehud Reiter, Kees van Deemter

We present a novel heuristic approach that defines fuzzy geographical descriptors using data gathered from a survey with human subjects. The participants were asked to provide graphical interpretations of the descriptors `north' and `south' for the Galician region (Spain). Based on these interpretations, our approach builds fuzzy descriptors that are

Marcelo Lares, Andrés N. Ruiz, Heliana E. Luparello, Laura Ceccarelli

We analyse the clustering of cosmic voids using a numerical simulation and the main galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We take into account the classification of voids into two types that resemble different evolutionary modes: those with a rising integrated density profile (void-in-void mode, or R-type) and voids with shells (void-in-cloud mode

A. Cimarelli, E. De Angelis, P. Schlatter, G. Brethouwer

Direct Numerical Simulations of turbulent channel flows at friction Reynolds number 550, 1000, 1500, are used to analyse the turbulent production, transfer and dissipation mechanisms in the compound space of scales and wall-distances by means of the Kolmogorov equation generalized to inhomogeneous anisotropic flows. Two distinct peaks of scale-energy source

Olli-Pekka Koistinen, Emile Maras, Aki Vehtari, Hannes Jónsson

The calculation of minimum energy paths for transitions such as atomic and/or spin re-arrangements is an important task in many contexts and can often be used to determine the mechanism and rate of transitions. An important challenge is to reduce the computational effort in such calculations, especially when ab initio or electron density functional calculati

Olivier Iffrig, Patrick Hennebelle

Galaxy evolution and star formation are two multi-scale problems tightly linked to each other. To understand the interstellar cycle, which triggers galaxy evolution, it is necessary to describe simultaneously the large-scale evolution widely induced by the feedback processes and the details of the gas dynamics that controls the star formation process through

Yu. Kolomoitsev, A. Krivoshein, M. Skopina

Differential and falsified sampling expansions $\sum_{k\in \mathbb{Z}^d}c_kϕ(M^jx+k)$, where $M$ is a matrix dilation, are studied. In the case of differential expansions, $c_k=Lf(M^{-j}\cdot)(-k)$, where $L$ is an appropriate differential operator. For a large class of functions $ϕ$, the approximation order of differential expansions was recently studied. S

Duccio Piovani, Carlos Molinero, Alan Wilson

The study of the properties and structure of a city's road network has for many years been the focus of much work, as has the mathematical modelling of the location of its retail activity and of the emergence of clustering in retail centres. Despite these two phenomena strongly depending on one another and their fundamental importance in understanding ci

Akira Kanada

Given a genus-g Heegaard splitting of a 3-sphere, the genus-g Goeritz group is defined to be the group of the isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphism of the 3-sphere that preserve the splitting. In this paper, we determine the twisted first (co)homology group of the genus-2 Goeritz group of 3-sphere.

Haris Aziz, Shenwei Huang

We consider a committee voting setting in which each voter approves of a subset of candidates and based on the approvals, a target number of candidates are to be selected. In particular we focus on the axiomatic property called extended justified representation (EJR). Although a committee satisfying EJR is guaranteed to exist, the computational complexity of

Giovanni Barbarino

The theory of Generalized Locally Toeplitz (GLT) sequences of matrices has been developed in order to study the asymptotic behaviour of particular spectral distributions when the dimension of the matrices tends to infinity. A key concepts in this theory are the notion of Approximating Classes of Sequences (a.c.s.), and spectral symbols, that lead to define a

Diogo Kendy Matsumoto, Kenichi Shimizu

A dynamical Yang-Baxter map, introduced by Shibukawa, is a solution of the set-theoretical analogue of the dynamical Yang-Baxter equation. In this paper, we initiate a quiver-theoretical approach for the study of dynamical Yang-Baxter maps. Our key observation is that the category of dynamical sets over a set $Λ$, introduced by Shibukawa to establish a categ

A. V. Chalyi, A. N. Vasilev, E. V. Zaitseva

In this review paper, the theory of synaptic transmission (ST) was developed and discussed. We used the hypothesis of isomorphism between: (a) the cooperative behavior of mediators --- acetylcholine molecules (ACh) and cholinoreceptors in a synaptic cleft with binding into mediator-receptor (AChR) complexes, (b) the critical phenomena in confined binary liqu

R. Kenna, O. Mryglod, B. Berche

Like it or not, attempts to evaluate and monitor the quality of academic research have become increasingly prevalent worldwide. Performance reviews range from at the level of individuals, through research groups and departments, to entire universities. Many of these are informed by, or functions of, simple scientometric indicators and the results of such exe

Mengqi Peng, Jun Xing, Li-Yi Wei

Digital sculpting is a popular means to create 3D models but remains a challenging task for many users. This can be alleviated by recent advances in data-driven and procedural modeling, albeit bounded by the underlying data and procedures. We propose a 3D sculpting system that assists users in freely creating models without predefined scope. With a brushing

V. S. Dotsenko, C. Mejía-Monasterio, G. Oshanin

We study an outcome of a vote in a population of voters exposed to an externally applied bias in favour of one of two potential candidates. The population consists of ordinary individuals, that are in majority and tend to align their opinion with the external bias, and some number of contrarians --- individuals who are always hostile to the bias but are not

J. P. Lee, A. J. Bennett, R. M. Stevenson, D. J. P. Ellis

Quantum states superposed across multiple particles or degrees of freedom are of crucial importance for the development of quantum technologies. Creating these states deterministically and with high effciency is an ongoing challenge. A promising approach is the repeated excitation of multi-level quantum emitters, which have been shown to naturally generate l

O. Y. Kalyuzhnyi, J. M. Ilnytskyi, C. von Ferber

We study the effect of the molecular architecture of amphiphilic star polymers on the shape of aggregates they form in water. Both solute and solvent are considered at a coarse-grained level by means of dissipative particle dynamics simulations. Four different molecular architectures are considered: the miktoarm star, two different diblock stars and a group

L. Jouvin, A. Lemière, R. Terrier

The H.E.S.S. collaboration revealed the presence of a very high energy (VHE) diffuse emission in the inner 100pc of the Galaxy in close correlation with the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). Recently, they deduced from this emission a cosmic-ray (CR) over-density in the region with a local peak toward the Galactic Center (GC) and proposed a diffusive scenario wi

Daniela Pimponi, Mauro Chinappi, Paolo Gualtieri, Carlo Massimo Casciola

The paper addresses the hydrodynamic behavior of a sphere close to a micro-patterned superhydrophobic surface described in terms of alternated no-slip and perfect-slip stripes. Physically, the perfect-slip stripes model the parallel grooves where a large gas cushion forms between fluid and solid wall, giving rise to slippage at the gas-liquid interface. The

Joji Nasu, Junki Yoshitake, Yukitoshi Motome

In conventional insulating magnets, heat is carried by magnons and phonons. In contrast, when the magnets harbor a quantum spin liquid state, emergent quasiparticles from the fractionalization of quantum spins can carry heat. Here, we investigate unconventional thermal transport yielded by such exotic carriers, in both longitudinal and transverse components,

J Frenkel, J C Taylor

We examine the renormalization of the first order formulation of Yang-Mills theory, by using the BRST idenities. These preserve the gauge invariance of the theory and enable a recursive proof of renormalizability to higher orders in perturbation theory. The renormalization involves non-linear mixings as well as re-scalings of the fields and sources, which le

Haruka Taniguchi, Daichi Kimura, Michiaki Matsukawa, Tasuku Inomata

We investigated slow relaxations of the magnetostriction and residual magnetostriction of the phase-separated system (Eu$_{1-x}$Gd$_{x}$)$_{0.6}$Sr$_{0.4}$MnO$_3$, in which the metamagnetic transition from a paramagnetic insulating state to a ferromagnetic metallic state is accompanied by a lattice shrinkage. The relaxations are well fitted by a stretched ex

G. Panochko, V. Pastukhov, I. Vakarchuk

We studied the properties of a single impurity atom immersed in a dilute Bose condensate at low temperatures. In particular, we perturbatively obtained the momentum dependence of the impurity spectrum and damping. By means of the Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory we also calculated the self-energy both for attractive and repulsive polaron in the long-wave

Matteo Amabili, Alberto Giacomello, Simone Meloni, Carlo Massimo Casciola

The mechanism of the collapse of the superhydrophobic state is elucidated for submerged nanoscale textures forming a three-dimensional interconnected vapor domain. This key issue for the design of nanotextures poses significant simulation challenges as it is characterized by diverse time and length scales. State-of-the-art atomistic rare events simulations a

Pavel Drabek, Ky Ho, Abhishek Sarkar

We investigate the Fredholm alternative for the $p$-Laplacian in an exterior domain which is the complement of the closed unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 2$). By employing techniques of Calculus of Variations we obtain the multiplicity of solutions. The striking difference between our case and the entire space case is also discussed.

Daniela Pimponi, Mauro Chinappi, Paolo Gualtieri, Carlo Massimo Casciola

The hydrodynamics of a flagellated microorganism is investigated when swimming close to a planar free-slip surface by means of numerical solu- tions of the Stokes equations obtained via a Boundary Element Method. Depending on the initial condition, the swimmer can either escape from the free-slip surface or collide with the boundary. Interestingly, the mi- c

Artur de Araujo

We construct the moduli space of finite dimensional representations of generalized quivers for arbitrary connected complex reductive groups using Geometric Invariant Theory as well as Symplectic reduction methods. We explicit characterize stability and instability for generalized quivers in terms of Jordan-Hölder and Harder Narasimhan objects, reproducing we

Francesco C. Pignatale, Jean-François Gonzalez, Nicolas Cuello, Bernard Bourdon

The size and density of dust grains determine their response to gas drag in protoplanetary discs. Aerodynamical (size x density) sorting is one of the proposed mechanisms to explain the grain properties and chemical fractionation of chondrites. However, the efficiency of aerodynamical sorting and the location in the disc in which it could occur are still unk

Noriyuki Abe, Guy Henniart, Marie-France Vigneras

Let $F$ be locally compact field with residue characteristic $p$, and $\mathbf{G}$ a connected reductive $F$-group. Let $\mathcal{U}$ be a pro-$p$ Iwahori subgroup of $G = \mathbf{G}(F)$. Fix a commutative ring $R$. If $π$ is a smooth $R[G]$-representation, the space of invariants $π^{\mathcal{U}}$ is a right module over the Hecke algebra $\mathcal{H}$ of $\

Joni Virta, Klaus Nordhausen

The blind source separation model for multivariate time series generally assumes that the observed series is a linear transformation of an unobserved series with temporally uncorrelated or independent components. Given the observations, the objective is to find a linear transformation that recovers the latent series. Several methods for accomplishing this ex

Søren Dahlgaard, Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen, Morten Stöckel

In this paper, we consider the problem of finding a cycle of length $2k$ (a $C_{2k}$) in an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges for constant $k\ge2$. A classic result by Bondy and Simonovits [J.Comb.Th.'74] implies that if $m \ge100k n^{1+1/k}$, then $G$ contains a $C_{2k}$, further implying that one needs to consider only graphs with $m =

Junichiro Kawamura, Yuji Omura

We study dark matter physics in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with non-universal gaugino masses at the unification scale. In this scenario, the specific ratio of wino and gluino masses realizes the electro-weak scale naturally and achieves 125 GeV Higgs boson mass. Then, relatively light higgsino is predicted and the lightest neutral particle, th

Zuojun Wang, Junfang Tian, Rui Jiang, Xiaopeng Li

Traffic breakdown, as one of the most puzzling traffic flow phenomena, is characterized by sharply decreasing speed, abruptly increasing density and in particular suddenly plummeting capacity. In order to clarify its root mechanisms and model its observed properties, this paper proposes a car-following model based on the following assumptions: (i) There exis

Vladimer Baladze, Ruslan Tsinaridze

In the paper we construct and develop a fiber strong shape theory for arbitrary spaces over fixed metrizable space $\Bo$. Our approach is based on the method of Mardešić-Lisica and instead of resolutions, introduced by Mardešić, their fiber preserving analogues are used. The fiber strong shape theory yields the classification of spaces over $\Bo$ which is co

N. Lebovka, L. Bulavin, V. Kovalchuk, I. Melnyk

The two-step percolation behavior in aggregating systems was studied both experimentally and by means of Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. In experimental studies, the electrical conductivity, $σ$, of colloidal suspension of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in decane was measured. The suspension was submitted to mechanical de-liquoring in a planar filtration-

Y. Bilotsky, M. Gasik, B. Lev

A quantum kinetic equation is obtained for an inhomogeneous solid having arbitrary gradient concentration and chemical potential. We find, starting from nonequilibrium statistical operator, a new equation to describe atom migration in solid states. In continuous approximation, this equation turns into a non-linear diffusion equation. We derive conditions for

N. Fricke, J. Zierenberg, M. Marenz, F. P. Spitzner

We study the scaling laws of diffusion in two-dimensional media with long-range correlated disorder through exact enumeration of random walks. The disordered medium is modelled by percolation clusters with correlations decaying with the distance as a power law, $r^{-a}$, generated with the improved Fourier filtering method. To characterize this type of disor

A. Lähteenmäki, E. Järvelä, T. Hovatta, M. Tornikoski

Observations at 37 GHz, performed at Metsähovi Radio Observatory, are presented for a sample of 78 radio-loud and radio-quiet narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies, together with additional lower and higher frequency radio data from RATAN-600, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, and the Planck satellite. Most of the data have been gathered between February 2012

Giulia Prando, Mattia Zorzi, Alessandra Bertoldo, Alessandro Chiuso

Contemporary neuroscience has embraced network science to study the complex and self-organized structure of the human brain; one of the main outstanding issues is that of inferring from measure data, chiefly functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the so-called effective connectivity in brain networks, that is the existing interactions among neuronal p

Philipp Diebold, Jan-Peter Ostberg, Stefan Wagner, Ulrich Zendler

Background: Agile software development has become a popular way of developing software. Scrum is the most frequently used agile framework, but it is often reported to be adapted in practice. Objective: Thus, we aim to understand how Scrum is adapted in different contexts and what are the reasons for these changes. Method: Using a structured interview guideli

I. Eliazar

Inequality indices are quantitative scores that gauge the divergence of wealth distributions in human societies from the "ground state" of pure communism. While inequality indices were devised for socioeconomic applications, they are effectively applicable in the context of general non-negative size distributions such as count, length, area, volume,

Jie Huang

In this paper, we first present an adaptive distributed observer for a discrete-time leader system. This adaptive distributed observer will provide, to each follower, not only the estimation of the leader's signal, but also the estimation of the leader's system matrix. Then, based on the estimation of the matrix S, we devise a discrete adaptive algor

Isa Yildirim, Mujahid Abbas

The aim of this paper is to introduce an implicit S-iteration process and study its convergence in the framework of W-hyperbolic spaces. We show that the implicit S-iteration process has higher rate of convergence than implicit Mann type iteration and implicit Ishikawa-type iteration processes. We present a numerical example to support the analytic result pr

Senjian An, Farid Boussaid, Mohammed Bennamoun, Jiankun Hu

In this paper, we introduce transformations of deep rectifier networks, enabling the conversion of deep rectifier networks into shallow rectifier networks. We subsequently prove that any rectifier net of any depth can be represented by a maximum of a number of functions that can be realized by a shallow network with a single hidden layer. The transformations

Erica Janke, Philipp Brune, Stefan Wagner

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is widely used in the software industry and university introductory courses today. Following the structure of most textbooks, such courses frequently are organised starting with the concepts of imperative and structured programming and only later introducing OOP. An alternative approach is to begin directly with OOP followin

Ken-ichiro Murata, Hajime Tanaka

Liquid-liquid transition (LLT) in single-component liquids is one of the most mysterious phenomena in condensed matter. So far this problem has attracted attention mainly from the purely scientific viewpoint. Here we report the first experimental study on an impact of surface nano-structuring on LLT by using a surface treatment called rubbing, which is the k

Tsuguhiko Asakawa, So Matsuura

We find a novel tachyon condensation which provides a D-brane system with spherical worldvolume in the flat spacetime. The tachyon profile is a deformation of a known D0-brane solution on non-BPS D3-branes in type IIA superstring theory, which realizes a bound state of a spherical D2-brane and a D0-brane. The D0-brane is resolved into the sphere as a $U(1)$

Dominik D. Freydenberger, Benny Kimelfeld, Liat Peterfreund

Regular expressions with capture variables, also known as "regex formulas," extract relations of spans (interval positions) from text. These relations can be further manipulated via Relational Algebra as studied in the context of document spanners, Fagin et al.'s formal framework for information extraction. We investigate the complexity of queryi

Besnik Fetahu, Ujwal Gadiraju, Stefan Dietze

The increasing amount of data on the Web, in particular of Linked Data, has led to a diverse landscape of datasets, which make entity retrieval a challenging task. Explicit cross-dataset links, for instance to indicate co-references or related entities can significantly improve entity retrieval. However, only a small fraction of entities are interlinked thro

Hang Li, Guilu Long

Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation has received increasing attention due to its robustness against control errors. However, all the previous schemes have to use at least two sequentially implemented gates to realize a general one-qubit gate. Based on two recent works, we construct two Hamiltonians and experimentally realized nonadiabatic holonomic ga

Joan Camunas-Soler, Anna Alemany, Felix Ritort

Thermodynamic bulk measurements of binding reactions critically rely on the validity of the law of mass action and the assumption of a dilute solution. Yet important biological systems such as allosteric ligand-receptor binding, macromolecular crowding, or misfolded molecules may not follow this fundamental law and require a particular reaction model. Here w

Besnik Fetahu, Abhijit Anand, Avishek Anand

Wikipedia, rich in entities and events, is an invaluable resource for various knowledge harvesting, extraction and mining tasks. Numerous resources like DBpedia, YAGO and other knowledge bases are based on extracting entity and event based knowledge from it. Online news, on the other hand, is an authoritative and rich source for emerging entities, events and

Besnik Fetahu, Katja Markert, Avishek Anand

Wikipedia entity pages are a valuable source of information for direct consumption and for knowledge-base construction, update and maintenance. Facts in these entity pages are typically supported by references. Recent studies show that as much as 20\% of the references are from online news sources. However, many entity pages are incomplete even if relevant i

Quentin Berger, Giambattista Giacomin, Maha Khatib

The Poland-Scheraga model for DNA denaturation, besides playing a central role in applications, has been widely studied in the physical and mathematical literature over the past decades. More recently a natural generalization has been introduced in the biophysics literature to overcome the limits of the original model, namely to allow an excess of bases -- i

Katharina Eggensperger, Marius Lindauer, Holger H. Hoos, Frank Hutter

The optimization of algorithm (hyper-)parameters is crucial for achieving peak performance across a wide range of domains, ranging from deep neural networks to solvers for hard combinatorial problems. The resulting algorithm configuration (AC) problem has attracted much attention from the machine learning community. However, the proper evaluation of new AC p

R. L. Smart, Dániel Apai, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, S. K. Leggett

We have followed up the three Y0 dwarfs WISEPA J041022.71+150248.5, WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9 and WISEPC J205628.90+145953.3 using the UKIRT/WFCAM telescope/instruments. We find parallaxes that are more consistent and accurate than previously published values. We estimate absolute magnitudes in photometric pass-bands from $Y$ to $W3$ and find them to be con

Xu Chen, Lingjun Pu, Lin Gao, Weigang Wu

In this article we propose a novel Device-to-Device (D2D) Crowd framework for 5G mobile edge computing, where a massive crowd of devices at the network edge leverage the network-assisted D2D collaboration for computation and communication resource sharing among each other. A key objective of this framework is to achieve energy-efficient collaborative task ex

Dan-Radu Grigore

The system of multi-gravitons has been considered before in the framework of functional formalism. We consider here the system of multi-gravitons in the causal formalism of quantum field theory. We derive in this formalism the fact that distinct gravitons cannot interact. The proof is based on a careful analysis of the first two orders of the perturbation th

Majid Khadiv, S. Ali. A. Moosavian, Aghil Yousefi-Koma, Hessam Maleki

In this paper, an online adaptation algorithm for bipedal walking on uneven surfaces with height uncertainty is proposed. In order to generate walking patterns on flat terrains, the trajectories in the task space are planned to satisfy the dynamic balance and slippage avoidance constraints, and also to guarantee smooth landing of the swing foot. To ensure sm

Z. R. Gong, W. Z. Luo, Z. F. Jiang, H. C. Fu

We theoretically investigate the chiral topological excitons emerging in the monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, where a bulk energy gap of valley excitons is opened up by a position dependent external magnetic field. We find two emerging chiral topological nontrivial excitons states, which exactly connects to the bulk topological properties, i.e., C

Zhongwen Li, Yujia Wang, Guo Tian, Peilian Li

The exotic topological domains in ferroelectrics and multiferroics have attracted extensive interest in recent years due to their novel functionalities and potential applications in nanoelectronic devices. One of the key challenges for such applications is a realization of robust yet reversibly switchable nanoscale topological domain states with high density

Maria Süveges, Richard Anderson

Recent studies have revealed a hitherto unknown complexity of Cepheid pulsation. We implement local kernel regression to search for both period and amplitude modulations simultaneously in continuous time and to investigate their detectability, and test this new method on 53 classical Cepheids from the OGLE-III catalog. We determine confidence intervals using

Nilutpal Bora, Rajib Biswas

We evaluated the body wave attenuation parameter in Kopili region of northeast India. Using the modified algorithm of coda normalization method, we delineated frequency-dependent attenuation for both P and S waves. Taking more than 300 seismograms as input, we comprehensively studied microearthquake spectra in the frequency range of 1.5 to 12 Hz. The estimat

Matthias Keil, Peter Thiemann

Contracts and contract monitoring are a powerful mechanism for specifying properties and guaranteeing them at run time. However, run time monitoring of contracts imposes a significant overhead. The execution time is impacted by the insertion of contract checks as well as by the introduction of proxy objects that perform delayed contract checks on demand. Sta

Kate Y. L. Su, James M. De Buizer, George H. Rieke, Alexander V. Krivov

Debris disk morphology is wavelength dependent due to the wide range of particle sizes and size-dependent dynamics influenced by various forces. Resolved images of nearby debris disks reveal complex disk structures that are difficult to distinguish from their spectral energy distributions. Therefore, multi-wavelength resolved images of nearby debris systems

Meysam Sadeghi, Luca Sanguinetti, Chau Yuen

Next generation of wireless networks will likely rely on large-scale antenna systems, either in the form of massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) or millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. Therefore, the conventional fully-digital precoders are not suitable for physical layer multicasting as they require a dedicated radio frequency chain per antenna element. In

Daoyu Zhang, Minnan Yang, Huimin Gao, Shuai Dong

Band alignment between solids is a crucial issue in condensed matter physics and electronic devices. Although the XPS method has been used as a routine method for determination of the band alignment, the theoretical calculations by copying the XPS band alignment procedure usually fail to match the measured results. In this work, a reliable ab-initio calculat

Jang Soo Kim, Kyu-Hwan Lee, Se-jin Oh

The weight multiplicities of finite dimensional simple Lie algebras can be computed individually using various methods. Still, it is hard to derive explicit closed formulas. Similarly, explicit closed formulas for the multiplicities of maximal weights of affine Kac--Moody algebras are not known in most cases. In this paper, we study weight multiplicities for

Jie-Xiong Mo, Gu-Qiang Li

We revisit the Hawking temperature$-$entanglement entropy criticality of the $d$-dimensional charged AdS black hole with our attention concentrated on the ratio $\frac{T_c δS_c}{Q_c}$. Comparing the results of this paper with those of the ratio $\frac{T_c S_c}{Q_c}$, one can find both the similarities and differences. These two ratios are independent of the

M. Raba, E. Ressouche, N. Qureshi, C. V. Colin

The magnetic structure of the heavy fermion antiferromagnet CePt$_2$In$_7$ is determined using neutron diffraction. We find a magnetic wave vector $\mathbf{q}_M = (1/2,1/2,1/2)$, which is temperature independent up to $T_N =$ 5.5 K. A staggered moment of 0.45(1)$μ_B$ at 2 K resides on the Ce ion. The nearest-neighbor moments in the tetragonal basal plane are

Resmi P. K, Jim Libby, Sneha Malde, Guy Wilkinson

Quantum-correlated measurements of the decay $D^{0} \to K^{0}_{\rm S}π^{+}π^{-}π^{0}$ are performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 818 pb$^{-1}$ collected at the $ψ(3770)$ resonance by the CLEO-c detector. Preliminary results are presented for the $CP$-even fraction $F_{+}$ and the strong-phase differences of this decay. The

G. Viera-López, A. Serrano-Muñoz, J. Amigó-Vega, O. Cruzata

We introduce an instrument for a wide spectrum of experiments on gravities other than our planet's. It is based on a large Atwood machine where one of the loads is a bucket equipped with a single board computer and different sensors. The computer is able to detect the falling (or rising) and then the stabilization of the effective gravity and to trigger

Jialing Liao, Muhammad R. A. Khandaker, Kai-Kit Wong

This paper considers a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay system with an energy harvesting relay node. All nodes are equipped with multiple antennas, and the relay node depends on the harvested energy from the received signal to support information forwarding. In particular, the relay node deploys power splitting based energy harvesting scheme. The

Siddarth Srinivasan, Zhiyan Wei, L. Mahadevan

Motivated by the redrawing of hot glass into thin sheets, we investigate the shape and stability of a thin viscous sheet that is inhomogeneously stretched in an imposed non-uniform temperature field. We first determine the associated base flow by solving the long-timescale stretching flow of a flat sheet as a function of two dimensionless parameters: the nor

L. Clifton Johnson, Anil C. Seth, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Lori C. Beerman

We measure the mass function for a sample of 840 young star clusters with ages between 10-300 Myr observed by the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey in M31. The data show clear evidence of a high-mass truncation: only 15 clusters more massive than $10^4$ $M_{\odot}$ are observed, compared to $\sim$100 expected for a canonical $M^{-2}$ pure

Alexey Peretyatko, Konstantin Nefedev, Yutaka Okabe

We study the magnetic field effects on the diluted spin-ice materials using the replica-exchange Monte Carlo simulation. We observe five plateaus in the magnetization curve of the diluted nearest-neighbor spin-ice model on the pyrochlore lattice when a magnetic field is applied in the [111] direction. This is in contrast to the case of the pure model with tw

Jing Miao, Amir Dembo

We prove the power law decay $p(t,x) \sim t^{-ϕ(x,b)/2}$ in which $p(t,x)$ is the probability that the fraction of time up to $t$ in which a random walk $S$ of i.i.d. zero-mean increments taking finitely many values, is non-negative, exceeds $x$ throughout $s \in [1,t]$. Here $ϕ(x,b)= \mathbb{P}(\text{Lévy}(1/2,κ(x,b))<0)$ for $κ(x,b) = \frac{\sqrt{1-x} b -

Lei Fan, Ziyu Pan, Long Chen, Kai Huang

Reconstruction based on the stereo camera has received considerable attention recently, but two particular challenges still remain. The first concerns the need to aggregate similar pixels in an effective approach, and the second is to maintain as much of the available information as possible while ensuring sufficient accuracy. To overcome these issues, we pr

Masaru Shibata, Kenta Kiuchi, Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi

Employing a simplified version of the Israel-Stewart formalism for general-relativistic shear-viscous hydrodynamics, we perform axisymmetric general-relativistic simulations for a rotating neutron star surrounded by a massive torus, which can be formed from differentially rotating stars. We show that with our choice of a shear-viscous hydrodynamics formalism

Masafumi Yagi, Michitoshi Yoshida, Giuseppe Gavazzi, Yutaka Komiyama

We surveyed a central 0.6 deg^2 region of Abell 1367 cluster for extended ionized gas clouds (EIGs) using the Subaru prime-focus camera (Suprime-Cam) with a narrow-band filter that covers Halpha. We discovered six new EIGs in addition to five known EIGs. We also found that the Halpha tail from the blue infalling group (BIG) is extended to about 330 kpc in pr