August 2018 arXiv papers — page 52

Donato Bini, Andrea Geralico

The scattering of spinning test particles by a Schwarzschild black hole is studied. The motion is described according to the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon model for extended bodies in a given gravitational background field. The equatorial plane is taken as the orbital plane, the spin vector being orthogonal to it with constant magnitude. The equations of motion

Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Kiya

An encryption scheme of JPEG images in the bitstream domain is proposed. The proposed scheme preserves the JPEG format even after encrypting the images, and the file size of encrypted images is the exact same as that of the original JPEG images. Several methods for encrypting JPEG images in the bitstream domain have been proposed. However, since some marker

Adithya Balaji, Alexander Allen

AutoML serves as the bridge between varying levels of expertise when designing machine learning systems and expedites the data science process. A wide range of techniques is taken to address this, however there does not exist an objective comparison of these techniques. We present a benchmark of current open source AutoML solutions using open source datasets

S. R. Taylor, J. Simon

The dynamical evolution of supermassive black-hole binary systems is tethered on large scales to the merger rate of massive galaxies, and on small scales to the stellar and gaseous environments of galactic cores. The population of these systems will create an ensemble gravitational-wave signal at nanohertz frequencies that is detectable by Pulsar Timing Arra

Momena Monwar, Omid Semiari, Walid Saad

Autonomous inspection of large geographical areas is a central requirement for efficient hazard detection and disaster management in future cyber-physical systems such as smart cities. In this regard, exploiting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is a promising solution to inspect vast areas efficiently and with low cost. In fact, UAVs can easily fly and r

Ginette Lafit, Francisco J. Nogales, Marcelo Ruiz, Ruben H. Zamar

We present a stepwise approach to estimate high dimensional Gaussian graphical models. We exploit the relation between the partial correlation coefficients and the distribution of the prediction errors, and parametrize the model in terms of the Pearson correlation coefficients between the prediction errors of the nodes' best linear predictors. We propose

Md Mostofa Kamal Tareq, Omid Semiari, Mohsen Amini Salehi, Walid Saad

Ultra reliable, low latency vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications is a key requirement for seamless operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in future smart cities. To this end, cellular small base stations (SBSs) with edge computing capabilities can reduce the end-to-end (E2E) service delay by processing requested tasks from AVs locally, without forw

Piyush M. Mehta, Richard Linares

In this paper, we demonstrate a new data-driven framework for real-time neutral density estimation via model-data fusion in quasi-physical ionosphere-thermosphere models. The framework has two main components: (i) the development of a quasi-physical dynamic reduced order model (ROM) that uses a linear approximation of the underlying dynamics and effect of th

David Eppstein

We investigate the graphs formed from the vertices and creases of an origami pattern that can be folded flat along all of its creases. As we show, this is possible for a tree if and only if the internal vertices of the tree all have even degree greater than two. However, we prove that (for unbounded sheets of paper, with a vertex at infinity representing a s

Elias Kärle, Dieter Fensel

Publishing fast changing dynamic data as open data on the web in a scalable manner is not trivial. So far the only approaches describe publishing as much data as possible, which then leads to problems, like server capacity overload, network latency or unwanted knowledge disclosure. With this paper we show ways how to publish dynamic data in a scalable, meani

Liang Bao, Xin Liu, Weizhao Chen

Big data analytics frameworks (BDAFs) have been widely used for data processing applications. These frameworks provide a large number of configuration parameters to users, which leads to a tuning issue that overwhelms users. To address this issue, many automatic tuning approaches have been proposed. However, it remains a critical challenge to generate enough

Sean Knight, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Christian Binek, Mathias Schubert

Here we present the use of Fabry-Pérot enhanced terahertz (THz) Mueller matrix ellipsometry to measure an electromagnon excitation in monoclinic cupric oxide (CuO). As a magnetically induced ferroelectric multiferroic, CuO exhibits coupling between electric and magnetic order. This gives rise to special quasiparticle excitations at THz frequencies called ele

Vadim Dudnikov, B. Han, S. Murray, T. Pennisi

It is assumed that persistent cesiation in the SNS RF SPS is related to deposition of carbon film on the collar converter. The work function dependence for graphite with alkali deposition has no minimum typical for metals and semiconductors and the final work function is higher. For this reason, the probability of H- secondary emission from cesiated metal an

Vadim Dudnikov

The study of charge-exchange injection of protons into accelerators started in 1960 at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, as proposed by G. I. Budker in connection with the development of the program of the VAPP-4 proton-antiproton collider. Since the purpose was the accumulation of beams with a maximum int

V. Dudnikov, A. Dudnikov

It is proposed one universal H-/D- ion source design combining the most advanced developments in the field of polarized ion sources to provide high-current high-brightness ion beams with >90% polarization and improved lifetime, reliability, and power efficiency. The new source utilizes high-efficiency resonant charge-exchange ionization of polarized neutral

Marc Kornbleuth, Merav Opher, Adam T. Michael, James F. Drake

A recent study by Opher et al. (2015) suggested the heliosphere has a "croissant" shape, where the heliosheath plasma is confined by the toroidal solar magnetic field. The "croissant" heliosphere is in contrast to the classically accepted view of a comet-like tail. We investigate the effect of the "croissant" heliosphere model on ener

Abdel-Hameed Nawar, Debapriya Sen

This paper establishes an interesting link between $k$th price auctions and Catalan numbers by showing that for distributions that have linear density, the bid function at any symmetric, increasing equilibrium of a $k$th price auction with $k\geq 3$ can be represented as a finite series of $k-2$ terms whose $\ell$th term involves the $\ell$th Catalan number.

Robert F. Phillips

Under suitable conditions, one-step generalized method of moments (GMM) based on the first-difference (FD) transformation is numerically equal to one-step GMM based on the forward orthogonal deviations (FOD) transformation. However, when the number of time periods ($T$) is not small, the FOD transformation requires less computational work. This paper shows t

Oleg Lazarev

We prove an existence h-principle for regular Lagrangians with Legendrian boundary in arbitrary Weinstein domains of dimension at least six; this extends a previous result of Eliashberg, Ganatra, and the author for Lagrangians in flexible domains. Furthermore, we show that all regular Lagrangians come from our construction and describe some related decomposi

Bo Wang

It has been suggested that the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of an oxygen-neon white dwarf (ONe WD) to a neutron star is a theoretically predicted outcome in stellar evolution, likely relating to the formation of some neutron star systems. However, the progenitor models of AIC events are still not well studied, and recent studies indicated that CO WD+He s

Maxim A. Gorlach, Marco Di Liberto, Alessio Recati, Iacopo Carusotto

We present a strategy based on two-dimensional arrays of coupled linear optical resonators to investigate the two-body physics of interacting bosons in one-dimensional lattices. In particular, we want to address the bound pairs in topologically non-trivial Su-Schrieffer-Heeger arrays. Taking advantage of the driven-dissipative nature of the resonators, we pr

Hal Cooper, Garud Iyengar, Ching-Yung Lin

The video game industry is larger than both the film and music industries combined. Recommender systems for video games have received relatively scant academic attention, despite the uniqueness of the medium and its data. In this paper, we introduce a graph-based recommender system that makes use of interactivity, arguably the most significant feature of vid

R. Ding, J. D. Whalen, S. K. Kanungo, T. C. Killian

A combined experimental and theoretical spectroscopic study of high-$n$, ${30 \lesssim n \lesssim 100}$, triplet $\text{S}$ and $\text{D}$ Rydberg states in $^{87}\text{Sr}$ is presented. $^{87}\text{Sr}$ has a large nuclear spin, ${I=9/2}$, and at high-$n$ the hyperfine interaction becomes comparable to, or even larger than, the fine structure and singlet-t

Adetunmise C. Dada, Will McCutcheon, Erika Andersson, Jonathan Crickmore

Joint or simultaneous measurements of non-commuting quantum observables are possible at the cost of increased unsharpness or measurement uncertainty. Many different criteria exist for defining what an "optimal" joint measurement is, with corresponding different tradeoff relations for the measurements. Understanding the limitations of such measurement

Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg, Wim van Driel, Anja C. Schröder, Mpati Ramatsoku

To complement the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) and the 2MASS Tully-Fisher survey (2MTF) a search for 21cm HI line emission of 2MASS bright galaxy candidates has been pursued along the dust-obscured plane of the Milky Way with the 100m Nancay Radio Telescope. For our sample selection we adopted an isophotal extinction-corrected K-band magnitude limit of $K_s^

Yuan Shi

In strong electromagnetic fields, new plasma phenomena and applications emerge, whose modeling requires analytical theories and numerical schemes that I will develop in this thesis. Based on my new results of the classical plasma model, the role of strong magnetic fields during laser-plasma interactions can now be understood. Moreover, based my new quantum e

Isaac Abraham

The memory resistor abbreviated memristor was a harmless postulate in 1971. In the decade since 2008, a device claiming to be the missing memristor is on the prowl, seeking recognition as a fundamental circuit element, sometimes wanting electronics textbooks to be rewritten, always promising remarkable digital, analog and neuromorphic computing possibilities

Allison M. Sachs, Robert B. Mann, Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We analyze scenarios in which pairs of Unruh-DeWitt-like detectors interact with scalar field(s) with bi-linear and quadratic coupling. For all cases -- real scalar fields, charged scalar fields, and even for couplings mixing two different scalar fields -- we find that the detectors' dynamics depends on the Wightman function of a real scalar field with t

Tarun Kumar Gupta, Khalid Raza

The performance of Feedforward neural network (FNN) fully de-pends upon the selection of architecture and training algorithm. FNN architecture can be tweaked using several parameters, such as the number of hidden layers, number of hidden neurons at each hidden layer and number of connections between layers. There may be exponential combinations for these arc

Ross O'Connell, Daniel J. Eisenstein

Covariance matrix estimation is a persistent challenge for cosmology. We focus on a class of model covariance matrices that can be generated with high accuracy and precision, using a tiny fraction of the computational resources that would be required to achieve comparably precise covariance matrices using mock catalogues. In previous work, the free parameter

Shuang Zhou, P. Giuliani, J. Piekarewicz, Anirban Bhattacharya

Background: The "proton radius puzzle" refers to an eight-year old problem that highlights major inconsistencies in the extraction of the charge radius of the proton from muonic Lamb-shift experiments as compared against experiments using elastic electron scattering. For the latter, the determination of the charge radius involves an extrapolation of

Marc Laforest

This work provides the foundation for the finite element analysis of an elliptic problem which is the rotational analogue of the $p$-Laplacian and which appears as a model of the magnetic induction in a high-temperature superconductor operating near it's critical current. Whereas the function theory for the $p$-Laplacian requires standard results in $L^p

Giannis Moutsinas, Weisi Guo

In an increasingly connected world, the resilience of networked dynamical systems is important in the fields of ecology, economics, critical infrastructures, and organizational behaviour. Whilst we understand small-scale resilience well, our understanding of large-scale networked resilience is limited. Recent research in predicting the effective network-leve

Leonardo Supan, Gabriela Castelletti, Alberto D. Supanitsky, Michael G. Burton

Kes 41 is among the Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) proposed to be physically linked to $γ$-ray emission at GeV energies. Although not conclusively, the nature of the $γ$-ray photons has been explained by means of hadronic collisions of particles accelerated at the SNR blast wave with target protons in an adjacent molecular clump. We performed an analysis

Yurii Ignat'ev, A. R. Samigullina

With the help of an applied software package written by the authors, we have averaged the effective total barotropic coefficient $κ=(-λ+ p)/(λ+ε$) of the classical scalar field and the cosmological term and have shown that during cosmological evolution for sufficiently large values of the cosmological constant the Universe transitions from the inflationary s

Ali Kazemi, Mahmood Roshan, Elham Nazari

The gravitational stability of a two-dimensional self-gravitating and differentially rotating gaseous disk in the context of post-Newtonian (hereafter PN) theory is studied. Using the perturbative method and applying the second iterated equations of PN approximation, the relativistic version of the dispersion relation for the propagation of small perturbatio

Andrey A. Dorogovtsev, Georgii V. Riabov, Björn Schmalfuß

This work is devoted to long-time properties of the Arratia flow with drift -- a stochastic flow on $\mathbb{R}$ whose one-point motions are weak solutions to a stochastic differential equation $dX(t)=a(X(t))dt+dw(t)$ that move independently before the meeting time and coalesce at the meeting time. We study special modification of such flow (constructed in \

Zachary E. Martinot, James E. Aguirre, Saul A. Kohn, Immanuel Q. Washington

Foregrounds with polarization states that are not smooth functions of frequency present a challenge to HI Epoch of Reionization (EoR) power spectrum measurements if they are not cleanly separated from the desired Stokes I signal. The intrinsic polarization impurity of an antenna's electromagnetic response limits the degree to which components of the pola

Dominik Rauch, Johannes Handsteiner, Armin Hochrainer, Jason Gallicchio

In this Letter, we present a cosmic Bell experiment with polarization-entangled photons, in which measurement settings were determined based on real-time measurements of the wavelength of photons from high-redshift quasars, whose light was emitted billions of years ago, the experiment simultaneously ensures locality. Assuming fair sampling for all detected p

G. N. Candlish, R. Smith, Y. Jaffé, A. Cortesi

Galaxies within galaxy clusters are known to be subject to a wide variety of environmental effects, both gravitational and hydrodynamical. In this study, we examine the purely gravitational interaction of idealised galaxy models falling into a galaxy cluster in the context of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). This modification of gravity gives rise to an e

Stefan Leichenauer

Recent work by Ishibashi, Maeda, and Mefford shows that the validity of the QNEC is sensitive to the IR regulator that one uses to define the entropy and its variations. In this note we discuss two general options that preserve both the QNEC and a physically-sensible notion of entropy density. We illustrate the application of each through an example. An impo

Valeriya Korol, Orlin Koop, Elena M. Rossi

Detached double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are one of the main science case for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). As the most numerous LISA sources, they will provide important contributions towards understanding binary evolution, Supernovae Type Ia (SNIa) formation channels and the structure of the Milky Way. So far only detection prospects for

Sahinur Reja, H. A. Fertig, L. Brey

Spin interactions of magnetic impurities mediated by conduction electrons is one of the most interesting and potentially useful routes to ferromagnetism in condensed matter. In recent years such systems have received renewed attention due to the advent of materials in which Dirac electrons are the mediating particles, with prominent examples being graphene a

Hadi Rahmani, Celine Peroux, Ilane Schroetter, Ramona Augustin

Projected quasar galaxy pairs provide powerful means to study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) that maintains the relics of galactic feedback and the accreted gas from the intergalactic medium. Here, we study the nature of a Lyman Limit system (LLS) with N(HI)=10$^{19.1\pm0.3}$ cm$^{-2}$ and a dust-uncorrected metallicity of [Fe/H]$=-1.1\pm0.3$ at $z=0.78$ to

Josefa E. Grossschedl, Joao Alves, Stefan Meingast, Christine Ackerl

We use the $\mathit{Gaia}$ DR2 distances of about 700 mid-infrared selected young stellar objects in the benchmark giant molecular cloud Orion A to infer its 3D shape and orientation. We find that Orion A is not the fairly straight filamentary cloud that we see in (2D) projection, but instead a cometary-like cloud oriented toward the Galactic plane, with two

Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, Marina Battaglia, Samaiyah Farid

Magnetic reconnection, the central engine that powers explosive phenomena throughout the Universe, is also perceived as one of the principal mechanisms for accelerating particles to high energies. Although various signatures of magnetic reconnection have been frequently reported, observational evidence that links particle acceleration directly to the reconne

M. M. Rosenthal, R. A. Murray-Clay

We apply an order-of-magnitude model of gas-assisted growth, known as pebble accretion, in a turbulent medium to suggest a reason why some systems form wide orbital separation gas giants while others do not. In contrast to traditional growth by ballistic collisions with planetesimals, growth by pebble accretion is not necessarily limited by doubling times at

Hao Chen, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter

Everyday place descriptions often contain place names of fine-grained features, such as buildings or businesses, that are more difficult to disambiguate than names referring to larger places, for example cities or natural geographic features. Fine-grained places are often significantly more frequent and more similar to each other, and disambiguation heuristi

Mohamed Omran, Christoph Lassner, Gerard Pons-Moll, Peter V. Gehler

Direct prediction of 3D body pose and shape remains a challenge even for highly parameterized deep learning models. Mapping from the 2D image space to the prediction space is difficult: perspective ambiguities make the loss function noisy and training data is scarce. In this paper, we propose a novel approach (Neural Body Fitting (NBF)). It integrates a stat

Sharad Joshi, Suraj Saxena, Nitin Khanna

Knowledge of source smartphone corresponding to a document image can be helpful in a variety of applications including copyright infringement, ownership attribution, leak identification and usage restriction. In this letter, we investigate a convolutional neural network-based approach to solve source smartphone identification problem for printed text documen

Mahdiyeh Khodaparastan, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Werner Brandauer

Electric rail transit systems are large consumers of energy. In trains with regenerative braking capability, a fraction of the energy used to power a train is regenerated during braking. This regenerated energy, if not properly captured, is typically dumped in the form of heat to avoid overvoltage. Finding a way to recuperate regenerative braking energy can

Boyuan Huang, Ehsan Nasr Esfahani, Jiangyu Li

Ever increasing hardware capabilities and computation powers have made acquisition and analysis of big scientific data at the nanoscale routine, though much of the data acquired often turns out to be redundant, noisy, and/or irrelevant to the problems of interests, and it remains nontrivial to draw clear mechanistic insights from pure data analytics. In this

Dan Rust

We study various aspects of periodic points for random substitution subshifts. In order to do so, we introduce a new property for random substitutions called the disjoint images condition. We provide a procedure for determining the property for compatible random substitutions-random substitutions for which a well-defined abelianisation exists. We find some s

Enci Wang, Xu Kong, Zhizheng Pan

Previous findings show that the existence of dense cores or bulges is the prerequisite for quenching a galaxy, leading to a proposed two-step quenching scenario: compaction and quenching. In this scenario, galaxies first grow their cores to a stellar mass surface density threshold and subsequently quenching occurs, suggesting that galaxies evolve from extend

Kevin Bowman, Noel Cressie, Xin Qu, Alex Hall

Emergent constraints use relationships between future and current climate states to constrain projections of climate response. Here, we introduce a statistical, hierarchical emergent constraint (HEC) framework in order to link future and current climate with observations. Under Gaussian assumptions, the mean and variance of the future state is shown analytic

Josemar Alves Caetano, Gabriel Magno, Evandro Cunha, Wagner Meira

WhatsApp is, as of 2018, a significant component of the global information and communication infrastructure, especially in developing countries. However, probably due to its strong end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp became an attractive place for the dissemination of misinformation, extremism and other forms of undesirable behavior. In this paper, we investigat

Lucas Schweickert, Klaus D. Jöns, Mehdi Namazi, Guodong Cui

Long range quantum communication and quantum information processing require the development of light-matter interfaces for distributed quantum networks. Even though photons are ideal candidates for network links to transfer quantum information, the system of choice for the realization of quantum nodes has not been identified yet. Ideally, one strives for a h

Ciarán Conneely, Andrew H. Jaffe, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

The direct detection of gravitational waves has provided new opportunities for studying the universe, but also new challenges, such as the detection and characterization of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds at different gravitational-wave frequencies. In this paper we examine two different methods for their description, one based on the amplitude of

Ghina M. Halabi, Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout

We evolve stellar models to study the common envelope (CE) interaction of an early asymptotic giant branch star of initial mass $5\,\rm M_{\odot}$ with a companion star of mass ranging from $0.1$ to $2\,\rm M_{\odot}$. We model the CE as a fast stripping phase in which the primary experiences rapid mass loss and loses about 80 per cent of its mass. The post-

Edward Richmond, William Slofstra, Alexander Woo

We compute the Nash blow-up of a cominuscule Schubert variety. In particular, we show that the Nash blow-up is algebraically isomorphic to another Schubert variety of the same Lie type. As a consequence, we give a new characterization of the smooth locus and, for Grassmannian Schubert varieties, determine when the Nash blow-up is a resolution of singularitie

R. Bárcenas, M. D. Gónzalez--Lima, A. J. Quiroz

An importance sampling and bagging approach to solving the support vector machine (SVM) problem in the context of large databases is presented and evaluated. Our algorithm builds on the nearest neighbors ideas presented in Camelo at al. (2015). As in that reference, the goal of the present proposal is to achieve a faster solution of the SVM problem without a

Joseph P. Conlon, Markus Rummel

X-ray observations of bright AGNs in or behind galaxy clusters offer unique capabilities to constrain axion-like particles (ALPs). Existing analysis technique rely on measurements of the global goodness-of-fit. We develop a new analysis methodology that improves the statistical sensitivity to ALP-photon oscillations by isolating the characteristic quasi-sinu

A. Y. Alfakih

Let a \neq b be two positive scalars. A Euclidean representation of a simple graph G in R^r is a mapping of the nodes of G into points in R^r such that the squared Euclidean distance between any two points is a if the corresponding nodes are adjacent and b otherwise. A Euclidean representation is spherical if the points lie on an (r-1)-sphere, and is J-spher

Tetiana Klymchuk

P. Van Dooren (1979) constructed an algorithm for computing all singular summands of Kronecker's canonical form of a matrix pencil. His algorithm uses only unitary transformations, which improves its numerical stability. We extend Van Dooren's algorithm to square complex matrices with respect to consimilarity transformations and to pairs of m-by-n co

Andrei Smolensky

It is shown that Suzuki-Ree groups can be easily defined by means of comparing two fundamental representations of the ambient Chevalley group in characteristic 2 or 3. This eliminates the distinction between the Suzuki-Ree groups over perfect and imperfect fields and gives a natural definition for the analogues of such groups over commutative rings. As an ap

José L. Herrera, Lauren Ancel Meyers

As infectious disease outbreaks emerge, public health agencies often enact vaccination and social distancing measures to slow transmission. Their success depends on not only strategies and resources, but also public adherence. Individual willingness to take precautions may be influenced by global factors, such as news media, or local factors, such as infecte

Fei Cheng, Chien-Ju Lee, Junho Choi, Chun-Yuan Wang

Epitaxial growth of single crystalline noble metals on dielectric substrates has received tremendous attention recently due to their technological potentials as low loss plasmonic materials. Currently there are two different growth approaches, each with its strengths and weaknesses. One adopts a sophisticated molecular beam epitaxial procedure to grow atomic

Filipe Rodrigues, Mariana Lourenço, Bernardete Ribeiro, Francisco Pereira

The growing need to analyze large collections of documents has led to great developments in topic modeling. Since documents are frequently associated with other related variables, such as labels or ratings, much interest has been placed on supervised topic models. However, the nature of most annotation tasks, prone to ambiguity and noise, often with high vol

Christoph Ager, Benedikt Schott, Magnus Winter, Wolfgang A. Wall

The focus of this contribution is the numerical treatment of interface coupled problems concerning the interaction of incompressible fluid flow and permeable, elastic structures. The main emphasis is on extending the range of applicability of available formulations on especially three aspects. These aspects are the incorporation of a more general poroelastic

Fabien Lafont, Amir Rosenblatt, Moty Heiblum, Vladimir Umansky

The quantum Hall effect, observed in a two-dimensional electron gas subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, imposes a 1D-like chiral, downstream, transport of charge carriers along the sample edges. Although this picture remains valid for electrons and Laughlin's fractional quasiparticles, it no longer holds for quasiparticles in the so-called hole-

R. González-Peinado, J. A. Caballero, D. Montes, C. Cifuentes

The system WDS 16329+0315 is an old, nearby quintuple physical system in the thick Galactic disc formed by a close-resolved, triple primary of solar metallicity, namely HD 149162, and a very wide, common proper motion, secondary pair, formed by the mid-M dwarf G-17-23 and the white dwarf LSPM J1633+0311S. We present an exhaustive astrometric and photometric

David Tellez, Maschenka Balkenhol, Irene Otte-Holler, Rob van de Loo

Manual counting of mitotic tumor cells in tissue sections constitutes one of the strongest prognostic markers for breast cancer. This procedure, however, is time-consuming and error-prone. We developed a method to automatically detect mitotic figures in breast cancer tissue sections based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Application of CNNs to hemato

Chris McKennan, Dan Nicolae

Many high dimensional and high-throughput biological datasets have complex sample correlation structures, which include longitudinal and multiple tissue data, as well as data with multiple treatment conditions or related individuals. These data, as well as nearly all high-throughput `omic' data, are influenced by technical and biological factors unknown

A. M. Hayajneh, S. A. R. Zaidi, Des. C. McLernon, M. Z. Win

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the coverage and spectral efficiency of a downlink cellular network. Rather than relying on the first order statistics of received signal-to-interference-ratio (SIR) such as coverage probability, we focus on characterizing its meta-distribution. Our analysis is based on the alpha-beta-gamma (ABG) path-loss mod

Marcel Ausloos, Francesca Bartolacci, Nicola G. Castellano, Roy Cerqueti

This paper analyzes the connection between innovation activities of companies -- implemented before crisis -- and their performance -- measured at time of crisis. The companies listed in the STAR Market Segment of the Italian Stock Exchange are analyzed. Innovation is measured through the level of investments in total tangible and intangible fixed assets in

E. L. Losada, J. E. Garcés

The ground state of the U-Mo system is studied in this work using an evolutionary algorithm coupled with \textit{ab initio} calculations. This methodology is applied to several compositions, with a more detailed examination at the U-rich side. A new ground state is identified within an approach that considers structures for up to 3 formula units per cell. A

Luiz Marques Afonso, João Antonio Marcondes Dutra Bastos, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Renato Fontoura de Gusmão Cerqueira

In addition to their vital role in professional software development, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are now increasingly used by non-professional programmers, including end users, scientists and experts from other domains. Therefore, good APIs must meet old and new user requirements. Most of the re-search on API evaluation and design derives from

K. Tomiyasu, T. Nomura, Y. Kobayashi, S. Ishihara

Spin crossover is expected to enrich unusual physical states in various types of condensed matter. Through inelastic neutron scattering, we study the spin-state excitations in the canonical and advanced platform, LaCoO$_3$, and reveal that the spatial correlation robustly maintains the seven-Co-site size below 300 K and the internal Co-$d$ electrons are spat

S. Lines, J. Manners, N. J. Mayne, J. Goyal

We present high resolution transmission spectra, calculated directly from a 3D radiative-hydrodynamics simulation that includes kinetic cloud formation, for HD209458b. We find that the high opacity of our vertically extensive cloud deck, composed of a large number density of sub-micron particles, flattens the transmission spectrum and obscures spectral featu

Minna Palmroth, Urs Ganse, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Markus Battarbee

This paper reviews Vlasov-based numerical methods used to model plasma in space physics and astrophysics. Plasma consists of collectively behaving charged particles that form the major part of baryonic matter in the Universe. Many concepts ranging from our own planetary environment to the Solar system and beyond can be understood in terms of kinetic plasma p

Marco Cortesi, Yassid Ayyada, John Yurkon

We describe a novel gaseous detector concept for heavy-ion tracking and imaging: the Optical Parallel-Plate Avalanche Counter (O-PPAC). The detector consists of two thin parallel-plate electrodes separated by a small (typically 3 mm) gap filled with low-pressure scintillating gas (i.e. CF4). The localization of the impinging particles is achieved by recordin

G. Chiaro, M. Meyer, N. Alvarez Crespo, R. J. Britto

BL Lac Objects (BL Lacs) and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) are radio-loud active galaxies (AGNs) whose jets are seen at a small viewing angle (blazars), while Misaligned Active Galactic Nuclei (MAGNs) are mainly radiogalaxies of type FRI or FRII and Steep Spectrum Radio Quasars (SSRQs), which show jets of radiation oriented away from the observer's

Xin Zhang, Fakai Wen, Jan de Gier

We study the integrable two-species asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) for two inequivalent types of open, non particle conserving boundary conditions. Employing the nested off-diagonal Bethe ansatz method, we construct for each case the corresponding homogeneous $T$-$Q$ relations and obtain the Bethe ansatz equations. Numerical checks for small syst

Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng

In past decades, Gaussian processes has been widely applied in studying trait evolution using phylogenetic comparative analysis. In particular, two members of Gaussian processes: Brownian motion and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, have been frequently used to describe continuous trait evolution. Under the assumption of adaptive evolution, several models have bee

York Schroder

This talk offers a brief review of the determination of coupling constants in the framework of dimensionally reduced effective field theories for thermal QCD, specializing on its gluonic sector. Interestingly, higher-order operators that go beyond the usual super-renormalizable truncation of the effective theory need to be considered when matching parameters

Kevin E. Bassler, Erwin Frey, R. K. P. Zia

When three species compete cyclically in a well-mixed, stochastic system of $N$ individuals, extinction is known to typically occur at times scaling as the system size $N$. This happens, for example, in rock-paper-scissors games or conserved Lotka-Volterra models in which every pair of individuals can interact on a complete graph. Here we show that if the co

Nadine Leisgang, Jonas G. Roch, Guillaume Froehlicher, Matthew Hamer

We report the observation of optical second harmonic generation (SHG) in single-layer indium selenide (InSe). We measure a second harmonic signal of $>10^3$ $\textrm{cts/s}$ under nonresonant excitation using a home-built confocal microscope and a standard pulsed pico-second laser. We demonstrate that polarization-resolved SHG serves as a fast, non-invasive

David Pekker, Jeremy Levy

In this comment we point out that the experimental evidence for superconductivity presented by Thapa and Pandey in arXiv:1807.08572 is also consistent with a percolation transition. We propose simple follow-up experiments which would help to eliminate percolation as a possible explanation for the observed data.

Greg Droge

In this paper, a novel, dual-mode model predictive control framework is introduced that combines the dynamic window approach to navigation with reference tracking controllers. This adds a deliberative component to the obstacle avoidance guarantees present in the dynamic window approach as well as allow for the inclusion of complex robot models. The proposed

Han Bossier, Gustavo Amorim, Jan De Neve, Olivier Thas

Recently, Thas et al. (2012) introduced a new statistical model for the probability index. This index is defined as $P(Y \leq Y^*|X, X^*)$ where Y and Y* are independent random response variables associated with covariates X and X* [...] Crucially to estimate the parameters of the model, a set of pseudo-observations is constructed. For a sample size n, a tot

Ulf Gran, Marcus Tornsö, Tobias Zingg

For strongly interacting systems holographic duality is a powerful framework for computing e.g. dispersion relations to all orders in perturbation theory. Using the standard Reissner-Nordstöm black hole as a holographic model for a (strange) metal, we obtain exotic dispersion relations for both plasmon modes and quasinormal modes for certain intermediate val

R. Earle Luck

Parameters and abundances have been derived for 435 Cepheids based on an analysis of 1127 spectra. Results from five or more phases are available for 52 of the program stars. The latter set of stars span periods between 1.5 and 68 days. The parameters and abundances show excellent consistency across phase. For iron, the average range in the determined abunda

Hai-Liang Li, La-Su Mai, Pierangelo Marcati

Our results provide a first step to make rigorous the formal analysis in terms of $\frac{1}{c^2}$ proposed by Chandrasekhar \cite{Chandra65b}, \cite{Chandra65a}, motivated by the methods of Einstein, Infeld and Hoffmann, see Thorne \cite{Thorne1}. We consider the non-relativistic limit for the local smooth solutions to the free boundary value problem of the

P. Steffens, Y. Sidis, J. Kulda, Z. Q. Mao

Triplet pairing in Sr2RuO4 was initially suggested based on the hypothesis of strong ferromagnetic spin fluctuations. Using polarized inelastic neutron scattering, we accurately determine the full spectrum of spin fluctuations in Sr2RuO4. Besides the well-studied incommensurate magnetic fluctuations we do find a sizeable quasiferromagnetic signal, quantitati

Fahad Shamshad, Ali Ahmed

This paper proposes a new framework to regularize the highly ill-posed and non-linear phase retrieval problem through deep generative priors using simple gradient descent algorithm. We experimentally show effectiveness of proposed algorithm for random Gaussian measurements (practically relevant in imaging through scattering media) and Fourier friendly measur

Carola Doerr, Furong Ye, Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang

Theoretical and empirical research on evolutionary computation methods complement each other by providing two fundamentally different approaches towards a better understanding of black-box optimization heuristics. In discrete optimization, both streams developed rather independently of each other, but we observe today an increasing interest in reconciling th

Jaume Alonso, Holger R. Dullin, Sonja Hohloch

The coupled angular momenta are a family of completely integrable systems that depend on three parameters and have a compact phase space. They correspond to the classical version of the coupling of two quantum angular momenta and they constitute one of the fundamental examples of so-called semitoric systems. Pelayo & Vu Ngoc have given a classification of se

Junsheng Fu, Said Pertuz, Jiri Matas, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

We consider a single-query 6-DoF camera pose estimation with reference images and a point cloud, i.e. the problem of estimating the position and orientation of a camera by using reference images and a point cloud. In this work, we perform a systematic comparison of three state-of-the-art strategies for 6-DoF camera pose estimation, i.e. feature-based, photom

A. Quattropani, A. S. Makhort, M. V. Rastei, G. Versini

Ferroelectric materials are interesting candidates for future photovoltaic applications due to their potential to overcome the fundamental limits of conventional single bandgap semiconductor-based solar cells. Although a more efficient charge separation and above bandgap photovoltages are advantageous in these materials, tailoring their photovoltaic response

Nerea Sebastian, Natan Osterman, Darja Lisjak, Martin Čopič

Successful realization of ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystals has opened up the possibility to experimentally study a completely new set of fundamental physical phenomena. In this contribution we present a detailed investigation of some aspects of the static response and the complex dynamics of ferromagnetic liquid crystals under the application of an exte