July 2018 arXiv papers — page 4

Hans L. Bodlaender, Tom C. van der Zanden

We show that the Temporal Graph Exploration Problem is NP-complete, even when the underlying graph has pathwidth 2 and at each time step, the current graph is connected.

Allison N. Bair, David G. Schleicher, Matthew M. Knight

We report on narrowband photometry and extensive imaging observations of comet C/Lulin (2007 N3) obtained at Lowell Observatory during 2008 and 2009. Enhanced CN images revealed a double corkscrew morphology with two near-polar jets oriented approximately east-west, and both CN and dust images showed nightly rotational variability and seasonal changes in bul

Eivind Fonn, Harald van Brummelen, Trond Kvamsdal, Adil Rasheed

Reduced-basis methods (RB methods or RBMs) form one of the most promising techniques to deliver numerical solutions of parametrized PDEs in real-time performance with reasonable accuracy. For incompressible flow problems, RBMs based on LBB stable velocity-pressure spaces do not generally inherit the stability of the underlying high-fidelity model and, instea

Namig J. Guliyev

We give an explicit description of all minimal self-adjoint extensions of a densely defined, closed symmetric operator in a Hilbert space with deficiency indices $(1, 1)$.

Braslav Rabar, Strahil Ristov, Maja Zagorščak, Martin Rosenzweig

Searching for local sequence patterns is one of the basic tasks in bioinformatics. Sequence patterns might have structural, functional or some other relevance, and numerous methods have been developed to detect and analyze them. These methods often depend on the wealth of information already collected. The explosion in the number of newly available sequences

Michael Eiselt, Annika Dochhan, Joerg-Peter Elbers

Current trends in Data Center Interconnectivity are considered in the light of increasing traffic and under the constraint of limited cost and power consumption.

Miguel Figueira, Leonardo Bronfman, Annie Zavagno, Fabien Louvet

Little is known about how high-mass stars form. Around 30\% of the young high-mass stars in the Galaxy are observed at the edges of ionized (HII) regions. Therefore these are places of choice to study the earliest stages of high-mass star formation, especially towards the most massive condensations. High-spatial resolution observations in the millimeter rang

Anil S. Baslamisli, Thomas T. Groenestege, Partha Das, Hoang-An Le

Semantic segmentation of outdoor scenes is problematic when there are variations in imaging conditions. It is known that albedo (reflectance) is invariant to all kinds of illumination effects. Thus, using reflectance images for semantic segmentation task can be favorable. Additionally, not only segmentation may benefit from reflectance, but also segmentation

Roberto Pierini

The domain of quantum technologies has been recently broaden to satellites orbiting the earth. Long distances communication protocols cannot ignore the presence of the gravitational field and its effects on the quantum states. Here, we provide a general method to investigate how gravity affects the performance of various quantum key distribution protocols fo

Paul Seifert, Marinus Kundinger, Gang Shi, Xiaoyue He

Crystals with symmetry-protected topological order, such as topological insulators, promise coherent spin and charge transport phenomena even in the presence of disorder at room temperature. Still, a major obstacle towards an application of topological surface states in integrated circuits is a clear, reliable, and straightforward read-out independent of a p

Ashutosh Bandekar, Ahmad Y. Javaid

Recent years have seen exponential development in wireless sensor devices and their rebirth as IoT, as well as increased popularity in wireless home devices such as bulbs, fans, and microwave. As they can be used in various fields such as medical devices, environmental studies, fire department or military application, etc., security of these low powered devi

Lei Li, Hongbo Fu, Chiew-Lan Tai

We present a simple and efficient method based on deep learning to automatically decompose sketched objects into semantically valid parts. We train a deep neural network to transfer existing segmentations and labelings from 3D models to freehand sketches without requiring numerous well-annotated sketches as training data. The network takes the binary image o

Zhaohui Yang, Jiancao Hou, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

This paper considers a full-duplex (FD) mobile-edge computing (MEC) system with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and energy harvesting (EH), where one group of users simultaneously offload task data to the base station (BS) via NOMA and the BS simultaneously receive data and broadcast energy to other group of users with FD. We aim at minimizing the tota

Yan Xu, Werner Potzi, Hewei Zhang, Nengyi Huang

Polar Crown Filaments (PCFs) form above the magnetic polarity inversion line, which separates the unipolar polar fields and the nearest dispersed fields from trailing part of active regions with opposite polarity. The statistical properties of PCFs are correlated with the solar cycle. Therefore, study of PCFs plays an important role in understanding the vari

G. Borisov, M. Devogèle, A. Cellino, S. Bagnulo

Asteroid (3200) Phaethon is a Near-Earth Apollo asteroid with an unusual orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other known asteroid. Its last close approach to the Earth was in mid-December 2017 and the next one will be on October 2026. Previous rotationally time-resolved spectroscopy of Phaethon showed that its spectral slope is slightly bluish, i

Keyur Kulkarni, Ahmad Y Javaid

Since last decade, smartphones have become an integral part of everyone's life. Having the ability to handle many useful and attractive applications, smartphones sport flawless functionality and small sizes leading to their exponential growth. Additionally, due to the huge user base and a wide range of functionalities, these mobile platforms have become

Gerhard Buchalla, Alejandro Celis, Matteo Capozi, Gudrun Heinrich

We discuss the interplay between NLO QCD corrections and anomalous couplings in Higgs boson pair production via gluon fusion, within the framework of a non-linearly realised Effective Field Theory, described by the electroweak chiral Lagrangian. We study how the NLO corrections with full top quark mass dependence affect the total cross sections as well as di

Jonathan Connell

Spoken language is a convenient interface for commanding a mobile robot. Yet for this to work a number of base terms must be grounded in perceptual and motor skills. We detail the language processing used on our robot ELI and explain how this grounding is performed, how it interacts with user gestures, and how it handles phenomena such as anaphora. More impo

Jagan Mohan Jonnalagadda

In this article we establish a few Lyapunov-type inequalities for two-point discrete fractional boundary value problems involving Riemann-Liouville type backward differences. To illustrate the applicability of established results, we obtain criteria for the nonexistence of nontrivial solutions and estimate lower bounds for eigenvalues of the corresponding ei

Jean Pierre Char

Universally valid ground truth is almost impossible to obtain or would come at a very high cost. For supervised learning without universally valid ground truth, a recommended approach is applying crowdsourcing: Gathering a large data set annotated by multiple individuals of varying possibly expertise levels and inferring the ground truth data to be used as l

Gabriele Pozzetti, Hrvoje Jasak, Xavier Besseron, Alban Rousset

In this work, a new parallel dual-grid multiscale approach for CFD-DEM couplings is investigated. Dual- grid multiscale CFD-DEM couplings have been recently developed and successfully adopted in different applications still, an efficient parallelization for such a numerical method represents an open issue. Despite its ability to provide grid convergent solut

James H. Schmerl

The notions of the kernel of a graph, full truth sets and full satisfaction sets are connected.

Jagan Mohan Jonnalagadda

In this article we establish a Lyapunov-type inequality for two-point Riemann-Liouville fractional boundary value problems associated with well-posed Robin boundary conditions. To illustrate the applicability of established result, we deduce criterion for the nonexistence of real zeros of a Mittag-Leffler function.

Federico Simmross-Wattenberg, Manuel Rodríguez-Cayetano, Javier Royuela-del-Val, Elena Martín-González

Medical image processing is often limited by the computational cost of the involved algorithms. Whereas dedicated computing devices (GPUs in particular) exist and do provide significant efficiency boosts, they have an extra cost of use in terms of housekeeping tasks (device selection and initialization, data streaming, synchronization with the CPU and others

Fioralba Cakoni, Houssem Haddar, Thi-Phong Nguyen

This paper considers the imaging of local perturbations of an infinite penetrable periodic layer. A cell of this periodic layer consists of several bounded inhomogeneities situated in a known homogeneous media. We use \mfied{a differential linear sampling method} to reconstruct the support of perturbations without using the Green's function of the period

P. A. Gonzalez, Yerko Vasquez, Ruth Noemi Villalobos

In this work, we present the quasinormal modes of a fermionic field in the background of Gauss-Bonnet-AdS black holes. We find exact solutions for $D=5$ at the fixed value $α=R^2/2$ of the Gauss--Bonnet coupling constant, with $R$ denoting the AdS radius, and we find numerical solutions for some range of values of the coupling constant $α$ and $D=5, 6$. Main

David M. Chan, Roshan Rao, Forrest Huang, John F. Canny

Modern datasets and models are notoriously difficult to explore and analyze due to their inherent high dimensionality and massive numbers of samples. Existing visualization methods which employ dimensionality reduction to two or three dimensions are often inefficient and/or ineffective for these datasets. This paper introduces t-SNE-CUDA, a GPU-accelerated i

František Čech, Jozef Baruník

This paper investigates how realized and option implied volatilities are related to the future quantiles of commodity returns. Whereas realized volatility measures ex-post uncertainty, volatility implied by option prices reveals the market's expectation and is often used as an ex-ante measure of the investor sentiment. Using a flexible panel quantile reg

Akira Musha, Yusuke Kanno, Kazuya Ando

We report the observation of the crossover between the extrinsic and intrinsic spin Hall effect induced by alloying. We found that the spin Hall angle, the ratio of the spin Hall conductivity to the electric conductivity, changes drastically by tuning the composition of Au-Cu alloy. The spin Hall angle changes the sign only in a limited range of the Cu conce

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Pamela K. Douglas

To learn how cognition is implemented in the brain, we must build computational models that can perform cognitive tasks, and test such models with brain and behavioral experiments. Cognitive science has developed computational models of human cognition, decomposing task performance into computational components. However, its algorithms still fall short of hu

Saptarshi Ghosh, Sarika Jalan

Symmetry breaking spatial patterns, referred to as chimera states, have recently been catapulted into the limelight due to their coexisting coherent and incoherent hybrid dynamics. Here, we present a method to engineer a chimera state by using an appropriate distribution of heterogeneous time delays on the edges of a network. The time delays in interactions,

Jakob Gath, Matthias Wiesenberger

We address several concerns related to the derivation of drift-ordered fluid equations. Starting from a fully Galilean invariant fluid system, we show how consistent sets of perturbative drift-fluid equations in the case of a isothermal collisionless fluid can be obtained. Treating all the dynamical fields on equal footing in the singular-drift expansion, we

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton

One of the main objectives of the ANTARES telescope is the search for point-like neutrino sources. Both the pointing accuracy and the angular resolution of the detector are important in this context and a reliable way to evaluate this performance is needed. In order to measure the pointing accuracy of the detector, one possibility is to study the shadow of t

Jason Bell, Xingting Wang, Daniel Yee

Let $k$ be a field and let $R$ be a left noetherian $k$-algebra. The algebra $R$ satisfies the Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence if the annihilators of irreducible representations are precisely those prime ideals that are locally closed in the ${\rm Spec}(R)$ and if, moreover, these prime ideals are precisely those whose extended centres are algebraic extensions o

Romain Yvinec, Mohammed Akli Ayoub, Francesco De Pascali, Pascale Crépieux

Dynamic models of signaling networks allow the formulation of hypotheses on the topology and kinetic rate laws characterizing a given molecular network, in-depth exploration and confrontation with kinetic biological data. Despite its standardization, dynamic modeling of signaling networks still requires successive technical steps that need to be carefully pe

Andreas Kamilaris, Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldu

Deep learning constitutes a recent, modern technique for image processing and data analysis, with promising results and large potential. As deep learning has been successfully applied in various domains, it has recently entered also the domain of agriculture. In this paper, we perform a survey of 40 research efforts that employ deep learning techniques, appl

Akio Asami, Hongyu An, Akira Musha, Makoto Kuroda

We investigate the absorption of a spin current at a ferromagnetic-metal/Pt-oxide interface by measuring current-induced ferromagnetic resonance. The spin absorption was characterized by the magnetic damping of the heterostructure. We show that the magnetic damping of a Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$ film is clearly enhanced by attaching Pt-oxide on the Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19

Yuki Takahashi

We consider projections of planar self-similar sets, and show that one can create nonempty interior in the projections by applying arbitrary small perturbations, if the self-similar set satisfies the open set condition and has Hausdorff dimension greater than 1.

Doriana Medic, Claudio Antares Mezzina, Iain Phillips, Nobuko Yoshida

This paper presents a study of causality in a reversible, concurrent setting. There exist various notions of causality in pi-calculus, which differ in the treatment of parallel extrusions of the same name. In this paper we present a uniform framework for reversible pi-calculi that is parametric with respect to a data structure that stores information about a

Julian Kullick, Christoph M. Hackl

A speed-sensorless state feedback controller for induction machines (IMs) with LC filter is proposed. The estimation of speed and remaining states is based on a speed-adaptive observer, requiring only the measurement of the filter input currents. The motor currents are controlled by a state-feedback controller with proportional and integral control action to

Yang Li

We consider the Dirichlet boundary value problem for graphical maximal submanifolds inside Lorentzian type ambient spaces, and obtain general existence and uniqueness results which apply to any codimension.

Swathikiran Sudhakaran, Oswald Lanz

In this paper we propose an end-to-end trainable deep neural network model for egocentric activity recognition. Our model is built on the observation that egocentric activities are highly characterized by the objects and their locations in the video. Based on this, we develop a spatial attention mechanism that enables the network to attend to regions contain

Marco Rasori, Pericle Perazzo, Gianluca Dini

In the near future, a technological revolution will involve our cities, where a variety of smart services based on the Internet of Things will be developed to facilitate the needs of the citizens. Sensing devices are already being deployed in urban environments, and they will generate huge amounts of data. Such data are typically outsourced to some cloud sto

Xin-Fu Gu, Tadashi Furuhara, Leng Chen, Ping Yang

The chemical enrichment/ordering of solute atoms in Mg matrix are crucial to understand the formation mechanism of long-period stacking ordered (LPSO) structures. In this study, three-dimensional distribution of solute elements in an Mg-Zn-Gd alloy during ageing process is quantitatively characterized by three-dimensional atom probe (3DAP) tomography. Based

Gang Bai, Zhihui Xie, Liang Wang

Sponsored search in E-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Taobao and Tmall provides sellers an effective way to reach potential buyers with most relevant purpose. In this paper, we study the auction mechanism optimization problem in sponsored search on Alibaba's mobile E-commerce platform. Besides generating revenue, we are supposed to maintain an efficie

Yunhe Sheng

In this paper, first we give a detailed study on the structure of a transitive Lie 2-algebroid and describe a transitive Lie 2-algebroid using a morphism from the tangent Lie algebroid TM to a strict Lie 3-algebroid constructed from derivations. Then we introduce the notion of a quadratic Lie 2-algebroid and define its first Pontryagin class, which is a coho

Timofey Mukha, Saleh Rezaeiravesh, Mattias Liefvendahl

This work presents a feature-rich open-source library for wall-modelled large-eddy simulation (WMLES), which is a turbulence modelling approach that reduces the computational cost of traditional (wall-resolved) LES by introducing special treatment of the inner region of turbulent boundary layers (TBLs). The library is based on OpenFOAM and enhances the gener

Fatih Kucuksubasi, Arzu Sorguc

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently shown great performance collecting visual data through autonomous exploration and mapping in building inspection. Yet, the number of studies is limited considering the post processing of the data and its integration with autonomous UAVs. These will enable huge steps onward into full automation of building inspect

Diego Marcos, Benjamin Kellenberger, Sylvain Lobry, Devis Tuia

We study the effect of injecting local scale equivariance into Convolutional Neural Networks. This is done by applying each convolutional filter at multiple scales. The output is a vector field encoding for the maximally activating scale and the scale itself, which is further processed by the following convolutional layers. This allows all the intermediate r

Dmitry V. Strelnikov, Juraj Jašík, Dieter Gerlich, Michihisa Murata

Near- and mid-IR absorption spectra of endohedral H2@C60+ have been measured using He-tagging. The samples have been prepared using a 'molecular surgery' synthetic approach and were ionized and spectroscopically characterized in the gas phase. In contrast to neutral C60 and H2@C60, the corresponding He-tagged cationic species show distinct spectral d

James Read, Nicholas Teh

We construct a notion of teleparallelization for Newton-Cartan theory, and show that the teleparallel equivalent of this theory is Newtonian gravity; furthermore, we show that this result is consistent with teleparallelization in general relativity, and can be obtained by null-reducing the teleparallel equivalent of a five-dimensional gravitational wave solu

Yuichi Shiozawa

We study the maximal displacement and related population for a branching Brownian motion in Euclidean space in terms of the principal eigenvalue of an associated Schrödinger type operator. We first determine their growth rates on the survival event. We then establish the upper deviation for the maximal displacement under the possibility of extinction. Under

Jun Dai, Jing Zhang

We study lattice approximations of reflected stochastic elliptic equations driven by white noise on a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d,\ d=1,2,3$. The convergence of the scheme is established.

Chiun-Yan Lin, Bor-Luen Huang, Godfrey Gumbs, Ming-Fa Lin

The lower-symmetry trilayer AAB-stacked graphene exhibits rich electronic properties and thus diverse Coulomb excitations. Three pairs of unusual valence and conduction bands create nine available interband excitations for the undoped case, in which the imaginary (real) part of the polarizability shows 1D square root asymmetric peaks and 2D shoulder structur

An Zhang, Qingqing Liang, Mingwei Lei, Luqi Yuan

Singly ionized nitrogen molecules in ambient air pumped by near-infrared femtosecond laser give rise to superradiant emission. Here we demonstrate coherent control of this superradiance by injecting a pair of resonant seeding pulses inside the nitrogen gas plasma. Strong modulation of the 391.4 nm superradiance with a period of 1.3 fs is observed when the de

Amar Kumar Banerjee, Mahendranath Paul

In this paper we have studied some important topological properties and characterization of I^K-convergence of functions which is a common generalization of I*-convergence of functions. We also introduce the idea of I^K*-convergence and I^K-limit points of functions.

Xin-Biao Xu, Lei Shi, Guang-Can Guo, Chun-Hua Dong

A new category of optical microring resonator, which is analogous to the Möbius strip, is proposed. The "Möbius" microring resonator allows the conversion between modes with different polarizations in the ring and light must circulate two cycles to be converted back to the original polarization status, which is similar to a Möbius strip. This topolog

Jun Dai, Shanjian Tang, Bingjie Wu

In this paper, we give interior gradient and Hessian estimates for systems of semi-linear degenerate elliptic partial differential equations on bounded domains, using both tools of backward stochastic differential equations and quasi-derivatives.

Gerrit Maik Horstmann, Markus Wylega, Tom Weier

We present a novel experiment on interfacial wave dynamics in orbitally shaken cylindrical vessels containing two- and three fluid layers. The experiment was designed as a hydrodynamical model for both alu- minum reduction cells and liquid metal batteries to gain new insights into the rotational wave motion driven by the metal pad roll instability. Different

Luigi T. Luppino, Filippo M. Bianchi, Gabriele Moser, Stian N. Anfinsen

Change detection in heterogeneous multitemporal satellite images is an emerging topic in remote sensing. In this paper we propose a framework, based on image regression, to perform change detection in heterogeneous multitemporal satellite images, which has become a main topic in remote sensing. Our method learns a transformation to map the first image to the

Maximilian Leyman, Freddie Ogemark, Jan Wehr, Giovanni Volpe

The presence of a delay between sensing and reacting to a signal can determine the long-term behavior of autonomous agents whose motion is intrinsically noisy. In a previous work [M. Mijalkov, A. McDaniel, J. Wehr, and G. Volpe, Phys. Rev. X 6, 011008 (2016)], we have shown that sensorial delay can alter the drift and the position probability distribution of

C. Caliendo, M. Hamidullah

The propagation of the Lamb modes along a-SiC/ZnO thin supported composite structures was simulated for different ZnO and a-SiC layer thicknesses and electrical boundary conditions. The phase and group velocity, the field profile and the electroacoustic coupling coefficient dispersion curves of the Lamb modes travelling along the composite plate were calcula

Juan J. Omiste, Johannes Floß, Paul Brumer

Coherent control of reactive atomic and molecular collision processes remains elusive experimentally due to quantum interference-based requirements. Here, with insights from symmetry conditions, a viable method for controlling Penning and Associative ionization in atomic collisions is proposed. Computational applications to He$^*({}^3\text{S})$-Li(${^2\text{

Michael Cochez, Martina Garofalo, Jérôme Lenßen, Maria Angela Pellegrino

Graph embedding models produce embedding vectors for entities and relations in Knowledge Graphs, often without taking literal properties into account. We show an initial idea based on the combination of global graph structure with additional information provided by textual information in properties. Our initial experiment shows that this approach might be us

Yunjin Zhang, Marta Ortin, Victor Arellano, Rui Wang

Power saving is a prevailing concern in desktop computers and, especially, in battery-powered devices such as mobile phones. This is generating a growing demand for power-aware graphics applications that can extend battery life, while preserving good quality. In this paper, we address this issue by presenting a real-time power-efficient rendering framework,

R. G. G. Amorim, J. S da Cruz Filho, A. F. Santos, S. C. Ulhoa

In this paper the interaction of a scalar field and the electromagnetic field in phase space is analyzed. The scattering process is calculated up to first order in the Planck constant which is obtained by an expansion of the Moyal product in phase space. The transition amplitude is calculated in the same context.

Tairan Liang, Bin Zhu, Ran Ding, Tianjun Li

In recent years a new field emerged in dark matter community and immediately attracted a multitude of theoriests and experimentalists, that of light dark matter direct detection in electronic systems. The phenomenon is similar with nuclear recoil in elastic scattering between dark matter and nucleus but with different kinematics. Due to the small energy gap,

Christine Smith-Johnsen, Daniel R. Marsh, Yvan Orsolini, Hilde Nesse Tyssøy

Energetic electrons from the magnetosphere deposit their energy in the atmosphere and lead to production of nitric oxide (NO) in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. We study the atmospheric NO response to a geomagnetic storm in April 2010 with WACCM (Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model). Modeled NO is compared to observations by Solar Occultation For

Amit Kashi

More luminous than classical novae, but less luminous than Supernovae, lies the exotic stellar eruptions known as Intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs). They are divided into a number of sub-groups depending on the erupting progenitor and the properties of the eruption. A large part of the ILOTs is positioned on the slanted Optical Transient Str

Nicolás Loayza, Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch, Axel Hoffmann, Matthieu Bailleul

The propagation of magnetostatic forward volume waves excited by a constricted coplanar waveguide is studied via inductive spectroscopy techniques. A series of devices consisting of pairs of sub-micrometer size antennae is used to perform a discrete mapping of the spin wave amplitude in the plane of a 30-nm thin YIG film. We found that the spin wave propagat

Elhoussine Azroul, Abdelmoujib Benkirane, Mohammed Srati

In this paper, we define the fractional Orlicz-Sobolev spaces, and we prove some important results of these spaces. The main result is to show the continuous and compact embedding for these spaces. As an application, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution for a non local problem involving the fractional M-Laplacian operator.

Pablo Ortega, Cedric Colas, Aldo Faisal

For many people suffering from motor disabilities, assistive devices controlled with only brain activity are the only way to interact with their environment. Natural tasks often require different kinds of interactions, involving different controllers the user should be able to select in a self-paced way. We developed a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) allowing

Adam Majewski, Stefano Ciliberti, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Trend and Value are pervasive anomalies, common to all financial markets. We address the problem of their co-existence and interaction within the framework of Heterogeneous Agent Based Models (HABM). More specifically, we extend the Chiarella (1992) model by adding noise traders and a non-linear demand of fundamentalists. We use Bayesian filtering techniques

Christine Smith-Johnsen, Yvan Orsolini, Frode Stordal, Varavut Limpasuvan

Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSW) affect the chemistry and dynamics of the middle atmosphere. Major warmings occur roughly every second winter in the Northern Hemisphere (NH), but has only been observed once in the Southern Hemisphere (SH), during the Antarctic winter of 2002. Observations by the Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS, an i

Litty Varghese, Anuradha Patra, Biswajit Mishra, Deepa Khushalani

Titanium dioxide is one of the most widely used wide bandgap materials. However, the TiO2 deposited on a substrate is not always transparent leading to a loss in efficiency of the device, especially, the photo response. Herein, we show that atomic layer deposition (ALD) and sputtered TiO2 thin films can be highly absorbing in the visible region. While in ALD

Jahanzaib Shabbir, Thomas Kruezer

Technology has made navigation in 3D real time possible and this has made possible what seemed impossible. This paper explores the aspect of deep visual odometry methods for mobile robots. Visual odometry has been instrumental in making this navigation successful. Noticeable challenges in mobile robots including the inability to attain Simultaneous Localizat

P. F. Roche, E. Lopez-Rodriguez, C. M. Telesco, R. Schodel

We discuss a high resolution (FWHM~ 0.45 arcsec) image of the emissive polarization from warm dust in the minispiral in the Galactic Centre and discuss the implications for the magnetic field in the dusty filaments. The image was obtained at a wavelength of 12.5 microns with the CanariCam multimode mid-infrared imager on the Gran Telescopio Canarias. It conf

Jarek Duda, Małgorzata Snarska

US Yield curve has recently collapsed to its most flattened level since subprime crisis and is close to the inversion. This fact has gathered attention of investors around the world and revived the discussion of proper modeling and forecasting yield curve, since changes in interest rate structure are believed to represent investors expectations about the fut

Andrew James Bruce, Norbert Poncin

We prove that the category of $\mathbb{Z}_2 ^n$-manifolds has all finite products. Further, we show that a $\mathbb{Z}_2 ^n$-manifold (resp., a $\mathbb{Z}_2 ^n$-morphism) can be reconstructed from its algebra of global $\mathbb{Z}_2 ^n$-functions (resp., from its algebra morphism between global $\mathbb{Z}_2 ^n$-function algebras). These results are of impo

Andrew James Bruce, Norbert Poncin

We show that the function sheaf of a $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-manifold is a nuclear Fréchet sheaf of $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-graded $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-commutative associative unital algebras. Further, we prove that the components of the pullback sheaf morphism of a $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-morphism are all continuous. These results are essential for the existence of categorical prod

Virginie Ollier, Mohammed Nabil El Korso, André Ferrari, Rémy Boyer

In radio astronomy, accurate calibration is of crucial importance for the new generation of radio interferometers. More specifically, because of the potential presence of outliers which affect the measured data, robustness needs to be ensured. On the other hand, calibration is improved by taking advantage of these new instruments and exploiting the known str

Elena Graverini

SHIP is a new general purpose fixed target facility, whose Technical Proposal has been recently reviewed by the CERN SPS Committee and by the CERN Research Board. The two boards recommended that the experiment proceeds further to a Comprehensive Design phase. A 400 GeV proton beam extracted from the SPS will be dumped on a heavy target with the aim of integr

Nandini Nilakantan, Anurag Singh

In this article, we prove that the neighborhood complex of the Kneser graph $KG_{3,k}$ is of the same homotopy type as that of a wedge of $\frac{(k+1)(k+3)(k+4)(k+6)}{4}+1$ spheres of dimension $k$. We construct a maximal subgraph $S_{3,k}$ of $KG_{3,k}$, whose neighborhood complex deformation retracts onto the neighborhood complex of $SG_{3,k}$.

Kalale Chola

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new computational fluid dynamics method to be called unsmoothed particle hydrodynamics SPH$-i$ which makes few assumptions and makes no assumption beyond the Navier-Stokes equations. The most attractive feature when compared with standard smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is that no explicit turbulence modeling is

Andrea Muolo, Edit Mátyus, Markus Reiher

Numerical projection methods are elaborated for the calculation of eigenstates of the non-relativistic many-particle Coulomb Hamiltonian with selected rotational and parity quantum numbers employing shifted explicitly correlated Gaussian functions, which are, in general, not eigenfunctions of the total angular momentum and parity operators. The increased com

Rafael Sala Mayato, Patrick Loughlin, Leon Cohen

We consider the non-overlapping wave function paradox of Aharanov \textit{et al.}, wherein the relative phase between two wave functions cannot be measured by the moments of position or momentum. We show that there is an unlimited number of other expectation values that depend on the phase. We further show that the Wigner distribution is M-indeterminate, tha

Sasi Kiran Yelamarthi, Shiva Krishna Reddy, Ashish Mishra, Anurag Mittal

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is the task of retrieving images from a natural image database that correspond to a given hand-drawn sketch. Ideally, an SBIR model should learn to associate components in the sketch (say, feet, tail, etc.) with the corresponding components in the image having similar shape characteristics. However, current evaluation meth

Soumitro Chakrabarty, Emanuël A. P. Habets

Supervised learning based methods for source localization, being data driven, can be adapted to different acoustic conditions via training and have been shown to be robust to adverse acoustic environments. In this paper, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based supervised learning method for estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of multiple speakers is

W S Dias, E H M Liquer, L C Gontijo, T A Oakes

This work describes an experiment and some results from instability involving the proliferation achieved by cells over some radio frequency electromagnetic field. Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells were cultured, and separate samples were examined within 6 hours. The frequency, the pulse width and peak-to-peak voltages were fixed. Producing at least 1 kV across

J. M. P. Carmelo, P. D. Sacramento

Over the last three decades a large number of experimental studies on several quasi one-dimensional (1D) metals and quasi1D Mott-Hubbard insulators have produced evidence for distinct spectral features identified with charge-only and spin-only fractionalized particles. They can be also observed in ultra-cold atomic 1D optical lattices a nd quantum wires. 1D

Deepak, Bacham E. Reddy

Here, we report comparative study of radial velocity ($\rm RV$) data of two major surveys: Gaia Data Release 2 and RAVE Data Release 5. We restricted the sample to stars with relatively accurate radial velocities ($σ_{\rm RV_{Gaia}} \leq$ 2 km s$^{-1}$ or $\leq$ 2%, and $σ_{\rm RV_{RAVE}}\leq$ 2 km s$^{-1}$ or $\leq$ 2%). The difference between $\rm RV_{Gaia

Niloofar Safi Samghabadi, Deepthi Mave, Sudipta Kar, Thamar Solorio

This paper presents our system for "TRAC 2018 Shared Task on Aggression Identification". Our best systems for the English dataset use a combination of lexical and semantic features. However, for Hindi data using only lexical features gave us the best results. We obtained weighted F1- measures of 0.5921 for the English Facebook task (ranked 12th), 0.5

Marcel Radermacher, Ignaz Rutter

The algorithm of Gutwenger et al. to insert an edge $e$ in linear time into a planar graph $G$ with a minimal number of crossings on $e$, is a helpful tool for designing heuristics that minimize edge crossings in drawings of general graphs. Unfortunately, some graphs do not have a geometric embedding $Γ$ such that $Γ+e$ has the same number of crossings as th

Pablo de Vera, Rafael Garcia-Molina

A method is reported for a simple, yet reliable, calculation of electron inelastic mean free paths in condensed phase insulating and conducting materials, from the very low energies of hot electrons up to the high energies characteristic of electron beams. Through a detailed consideration of the energy transferred by the projectile in individual and collecti

Henri M. J. Boffin, David Jones, Roger Wesson, Yuri Beletsky

Bipolar planetary nebulae (PNe) are thought to result from binary star interactions and, indeed, tens of binary central stars of PNe have been found, in particular using photometric time-series that allow detecting post-common envelope systems. Using photometry at the NTT in La Silla we have studied the bright object close to the centre of PN M3-2 and found

K. Werner, T. Rauch, J. W. Kruk

EGB6 is an extended, faint old planetary nebula (PN) with an enigmatic nucleus. The central star (PG0950+139) is a hot DAOZ-type white dwarf (WD). An unresolved, compact emission knot was discovered to be located 0.166" away from the WD and it was shown to be centered around a dust-enshrouded low-luminosity star. It was argued that the dust disk and evap

Risheng Liu, Yi He, Shichao Cheng, Xin Fan

Blind image deblurring plays a very important role in many vision and multimedia applications. Most existing works tend to introduce complex priors to estimate the sharp image structures for blur kernel estimation. However, it has been verified that directly optimizing these models is challenging and easy to fall into degenerate solutions. Although several e

V. G. Gurzadyan, A. Stepanian

The common nature of the dark sector - dark energy and dark matter - as shown in [1] follows readily from the consideration of generalized Newtonian potential as a weak-field General Relativity. That generalized potential satisfying the Newton's theorem on the equivalence of sphere's gravity and that of a point-mass located in its center, contains an

Peyman Nasehpour

In this note, we investigate the history of algebra briefly. We particularly focus on the history of rings, semirings, and the distributive law.

Yuri Kifer

We prove existence of a self-financing strategy which minimizes shortfall for game options in discrete time