January 2019 arXiv papers — page 82

Amlan K Halder, R Sinuvasan, A Paliathanasis, Pgl Leach

The symmetry analysis of the Cheng Equation is performed. The Cheng Equation is reduced to a first-order equation of either Abel's Equations, the analytic solution of which is given in terms of special functions. Moreover, for a particular symmetry the system is reduced to the Riccati Equation or to the linear nonhomogeneous equation of Euler type. Hence

Bakir Farhi

In this paper, we find the sums in closed form of certain type of Lucas-related convergent series. More precisely, we generalize the results already obtained by the author in his arXiv paper entitled: "Summation of certain infinite Fibonacci related series".

Thom Lake, Sinead A. Williamson, Alexander T. Hawk, Christopher C. Johnson

The application of machine learning techniques to large-scale personalized recommendation problems is a challenging task. Such systems must make sense of enormous amounts of implicit feedback in order to understand user preferences across numerous product categories. This paper presents a deep learning based solution to this problem within the collaborative

Mingjie Li, Tian-Yi Wang, Wei Xiang

In this paper, we justify the low Mach number limit of the steady irrotational Euler flows for the airfoil problem, which is the first result for the low Mach number limit of the steady Euler flows in an exterior domain. The uniform estimates on the compressibility parameter $\varepsilon$, which is singular for the flows, are established via a variational ap

Vladimir Dzhunushaliev, Vladimir Folomeev, Arislan Makhmudov, Ainur Urazalina

Domain wall, wormhole, particlelike, and cosmic string general relativistic solutions supported by two interacting phantom or ordinary scalar fields with 4th-, 6th-, and 8th-order potentials are studied. Numerical calculations indicate that regular finite energy solutions exist only for specific values of two free parameters of the potentials. By solving non

Masoomeh Javidi Kishi, Sebastiano Peluso, Hank Korth, Roberto Palmieri

We present SSS, a scalable transactional key-value store deploying a novel distributed concurrency control that provides external consistency for all transactions, never aborts read-only transactions due to concurrency, all without specialized hardware. SSS ensures the above properties without any centralized source of synchronization. SSS's concurrency

Mahesh Ravishankar, Vinod Grover

Frameworks like Numpy are a popular choice for application developers from varied fields such as image processing to bio-informatics to machine learning. Numpy is often used to develop prototypes or for deployment since it provides efficient implementation for operations involving arrays. Such an approach requires every operation to be executed eagerly. The

Taejoon Byun, Vaibhav Sharma, Abhishek Vijayakumar, Sanjai Rayadurgam

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being adopted for sensing and control functions in a variety of safety and mission-critical systems such as self-driving cars, autonomous air vehicles, medical diagnostics, and industrial robotics. Failures of such systems can lead to loss of life or property, which necessitates stringent verification and validati

Corey Ostrove, Linda E. Reichl

We obtain exact expressions for the local current and shot noise and the nonlocal shot noise in the first propagating channel of an NSN (normal-superconducting-normal) nanowire. Using high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductors (HTS) as our model systems we utilize a scattering theory approach to derive the scattering matrix for the systems in the high transparency l

Oscar S. Hernández-Daguer, Charles L. Barnes, Samuel P. Hernández-Rivera, Jorge L. Ríos-Steiner

The orthorhombic crystal structure of the novel molecular-inorganic polymer $\mathrm{K_{2}SeO_{4}\cdot H_{2}SeO_{3}}$ was elucidated using single-crystal X-ray diffraction with MoK$α$ radiation ($λ$= 0.71073 Å), performed at 100 and 298.15 K. The reported data is at 100 K since there were no structural differences as compared to the room temperature. The tec

Xin Li, Yifan Dang, Tefang Chen

Recently, with the rapid development of autonomous vehicles and connected vehicles, the demands of vehicular computing keep continuously growing. We notice a constant and limited onboard computational ability can hardly keep up with the rising requirements of the vehicular system and software application during their long-term lifetime, and also at the same

Zhewei Wang, Weizhen Cai, Charles D. Smith, Noriko Kantake

In this paper, we propose a pyramid network structure to improve the FCN-based segmentation solutions and apply it to label thyroid follicles in histology images. Our design is based on the notion that a hierarchical updating scheme, if properly implemented, can help FCNs capture the major objects, as well as structure details in an image. To this end, we de

J. S. Urquhart, C. Figura, F. Wyrowski, A. Giannetti

We have conducted a 3-mm molecular-line survey towards 570 high-mass star-forming clumps, using the Mopra telescope. The sample is selected from the 10,000 clumps identified by the ATLASGAL survey and includes all of the most important embedded evolutionary stages associated with massive star formation, classified into five distinct categories (quiescent, pr

M. E. Carrington

We study the effect of a Chern-Simons term on dynamical gap generation in a low energy effective theory that describes some features of mono-layer suspended graphene. We use a non-perturbative Schwinger-Dyson approach. We solve a set of coupled integral equations for eight independent dressing functions that describe fermion and photon degrees of freedom. We

Esube Bekele, Wallace Lawson

In person attributes recognition, we describe a person in terms of their appearance. Typically, this includes a wide range of traits including age, gender, clothing, and footwear. Although this could be used in a wide variety of scenarios, it generally is applied to video surveillance, where attribute recognition is impacted by low resolution, and other issu

A. J. Tetarenko, P. Casella, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, G. R. Sivakoff

We present simultaneous multi-band radio and X-ray observations of the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1, taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array. With these data, we detect clear flux variability consistent with emission from a variable compact jet. To probe how the variability signal propagates down the

Roberto Lionello, Cooper Downs, Jon A. Linker, Zoran Mikić

Ion fractional charge states, measured in situ in the heliosphere, depend on the properties of the plasma in the inner corona. As the ions travel outward in the solar wind and the electron density drops, the charge states remain essentially unaltered or "frozen in". Thus they can provide a powerful constraint on heating models of the corona and accel

Kathleen Daly, Colin Gavin, Gabriel Montes de Oca, Diana Ochoa

A Riemannian orbifold is a mildly singular generalization of a Riemannian manifold that is locally modeled on $R^n$ modulo the action of a finite group. Orbifolds have proven interesting in a variety of settings. Spectral geometers have examined the link between the Laplace spectrum of an orbifold and the singularities of the orbifold. One open question in t

Masoud M Nasari, Mohamedou Ould-Haye

In this paper an easy to implement method of stochastically weighing short and long memory linear processes is introduced. The method renders asymptotically exact size confidence intervals for the population mean which are significantly more accurate than their classical counterparts for each fixed sample size $n$. It is illustrated both theoretically and nu

Karlheinz Langanke, Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo, Andre Sieverding

Neutrinos produced during a supernova explosion induce reactions on abundant nuclei in the outer stellar shells and contribute in this way to the synthesis of the elements in the Universe. This neutrino nucleosynthesis process has been identified as an important contributor to the origin of $^7$Li, $^{11}$B,$^{19}$F, $^{138}$La, and $^{180}$Ta, but also to t

Gamaliel Cerda-Morales

In \cite{Ka}, the authors obtained a method for deriving special matrices, whose powers are related to Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. In the study, it has been developed a method for deriving special matrices of $3\times 3$ dimensions, whose powers are related to Horadam and generalized Fibonacci numbers, and some special matrices have been found via the metho

Paul Barry, Nikolaos Pantelidis

The group of almost Riordan arrays contains the group of Riordan arrays as a subgroup. In this note, we exhibit examples of pseudo-involutions, involutions and quasi-involutions in the group of almost Riordan arrays.

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Iair Arcavi, Claudio Ricci, Sandro Tacchella

Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can exhibit variable emission across the electromagnetic spectrum and over a broad range of timescales. The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the ultraviolet and optical is usually at the few tens of per cent level over timescales of hours to weeks. Recently, rare, more dramatic changes to the emission

Upol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison

Automated rationale generation is an approach for real-time explanation generation whereby a computational model learns to translate an autonomous agent's internal state and action data representations into natural language. Training on human explanation data can enable agents to learn to generate human-like explanations for their behavior. In this paper

Fiora Pirri, Lorenzo Mauro, Edoardo Alati, Valsamis Ntouskos

Action anticipation and forecasting in videos do not require a hat-trick, as far as there are signs in the context to foresee how actions are going to be deployed. Capturing these signs is hard because the context includes the past. We propose an end-to-end network for action anticipation and forecasting with memory, to both anticipate the current action and

Richard Sarmento, Evan Scannapieco, Benoit Côté

We study the observational consequences of several unknown properties of Population III (Pop III) stars using large-scale cosmological simulations that include a subgrid model to track the unresolved mixing of pollutants. Varying the value of the critical metallicity that marks the boundary between Pop III and Population II (Pop II) star formation across 2 d

Tahani R. Makki, Mounib F. El Eid, Grant J. Mathews

The light elements up to 7Li were produced by the Standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis (SBBN) in the early universe assuming standard conditions. All observed primordial abundances of these light elements match very well the predicted ones by this SBBN except for 7Li which seems to be overproduced. It is rather challenging to resolve this discrepancy owing to t

M. Dumnicki, B. Harbourne, J. Roé, T. Szemberg

We study linear systems of surfaces in $\mathbb{P}^3$ singular along general lines. Our purpose is to identify and classify special systems of such surfaces, i.e., those nonempty systems where the conditions imposed by the multiple lines are not independent. We prove the existence of four surfaces arising a(projective) linear systems with a single reduced me

George Grispos, William Bradley Glisson, Peter Cooper

The integration of medical devices in everyday life prompts the idea that these devices will increasingly have evidential value in civil and criminal proceedings. However, the investigation of these devices presents new challenges for the digital forensics community. Previous research has shown that mobile devices provide investigators with a wealth of infor

George Grispos, William Bradley Glisson, Tim Storer

An increasing number of cybersecurity incidents prompts organizations to explore alternative security solutions, such as threat intelligence programs. For such programs to succeed, data needs to be collected, validated, and recorded in relevant datastores. One potential source supplying these datastores is an organization's security incident response tea

L. O. Kerber, M. Libralato, S. O. Souza, R. A. P. Oliveira

HP$\,$1 is an $α$-enhanced and moderately metal-poor bulge globular cluster with a blue horizontal branch. These combined characteristics make it a probable relic of the early star formation in the innermost Galactic regions. Here we present a detailed analysis of a deep near-infrared (NIR) photometry of HP$\,$1 obtained with the NIR GSAOI+GeMS camera at the

M. Gromadzki, A. Hamanowicz, L. Wyrzykowski, K. V. Sokolovsky

We report on the discovery and follow-up of a peculiar transient, OGLE17aaj, which occurred in the nucleus of a weakly active galaxy. We investigate whether it can be interpreted as a new candidate for a tidal disruption event (TDE). We present the OGLE-IV light curve that covers the slow 60-day-long rise to maximum along with photometric, spectroscopic, and

Elen Golightly, Eric Coughlin, Chris Nixon

The tidal force from a supermassive black hole can rip apart a star that passes close enough in what is known as a Tidal Disruption Event. Typically half of the destroyed star remains bound to the black hole and falls back on highly eccentric orbits, forming an accretion flow which powers a luminous flare. In this paper we use analytical and numerical calcul

Marc J. Royster, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, Mark Wardle, Devaky Kunneriath

We have used the capabilities of ALMA to probe the ionized gas towards the Galactic center with the H30alpha mm hydrogen recombination line within 30'' of the Galaxy's dynamical center. The observations are made with spatial and spectral resolutions of 0.46'' X 0.35'' and 3 km/s, respectively. Multiple compact and extended sources

Matthew R. Bate

We report the statistical properties of stars and brown dwarfs obtained from four radiation hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation, the metallicities of which span a range from 1/100 to 3 times the solar value. Unlike previous similar investigations of the effects of metallicity on stellar properties, these new calculations treat dust and gas t

J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante, T. S. Gonçalves, K. Menéndez-Delmestre, I. G. de la Rosa

Massive quiescent compact galaxies have been discovered at high redshifts, associated with rapid compaction and cessation of star formation (SF). In this work we set out to quantify the time-scales in which SF is quenched in compact galaxies at intermediate redshifts. For this, we select a sample of green valley galaxies within the COSMOS field in the midst

Victor Galitski, Gediminas Juzeliūnas, I. B. Spielman

Gauge fields are ubiquitous in nature. In the context of quantum electrodynamics, you may be most familiar with the photon, which represents the gauge field mediating electromagnetic forces. But there are also gluons, which mediate strong forces, and the W and Z particles, which mediate the weak forces. According to the standard model, those few gauge bosons

Alejandro Molina, Antonio Vergari, Karl Stelzner, Robert Peharz

We introduce SPFlow, an open-source Python library providing a simple interface to inference, learning and manipulation routines for deep and tractable probabilistic models called Sum-Product Networks (SPNs). The library allows one to quickly create SPNs both from data and through a domain specific language (DSL). It efficiently implements several probabilis

H. Labrigui, A. Touri, S. Kabbaj

In this papers we investigate the g-frame and Bessel g-sequence related to a linear bounded operator $K$ in Hilbert $C^{\ast}$-module and we establish some results.

A. Bourouihiya, M. Rossafi H. Labrigui, A. Touri

Frames play significant role in signal and image processing, which leads to many applications in differents fields. In this paper we define the dual of $\ast$-operator frames and we show their propreties obtained in Hilbert $\mathcal{A}$-modules and we establish some results.

Gejza Dohnal

In statistical process control, procedures are applied that require relatively strict conditions for their use. If such assumptions are violated, these methods become inefficient, leading to increased incidence of false signals. Therefore, a robust version of control charts is sought to be less sensitive with respect to a breach of normality and independence

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Some personal reflections on the past and future of "econophysics", to appear in Europhysics News

Shahbaz Khan, Shashank K. Mehta

Depth first search (DFS) tree is a fundamental data structure for solving various graph problems. The classical DFS algorithm requires $O(m+n)$ time for a graph having $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. In the streaming model, an algorithm is allowed several passes (preferably single) over the input graph having a restriction on the size of local space used. Trivia

Charlotte M. Wood, Tabetha Boyajian, Kaspar von Braun, John M. Brewer

Constraining substellar evolutionary models (SSEMs) is particularly difficult due to a degeneracy between the mass, age, and luminosity of a brown dwarf. In cases where a brown dwarf is found as a directly imaged companion to a star, as in HD 4747 and HD 19467, the mass, age, and luminosity of the brown dwarf are determined independently, making them ideal o

Francisco Perdigon Romero, An Tang, Samuel Kadoury

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer and the most predominant cause of death in women worldwide. Imaging techniques such as the breast cancer pathology helps in the diagnosis and monitoring of the disease. However identification of malignant cells can be challenging given the high heterogeneity in tissue absorbotion from staining agents. In this work,

M. Shahwaiz Afaqui, Cristina Cano, Vincent Kotzsch, Clemens Felber

The next generation wireless standard, called Fifth Generation (5G), is being designed to encompass Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) architectures consisting of a single holistic network with Multiple Radio Access Technologies (Multi-RAT). Multiple connectivity protocols and spectrum would be managed from a common core (management system) handling both: i) t

Lowell Abrams, Daniel Slilaty

A graph $G$ embedded in a surface $S$ is called an $S$-grid when every facial boundary walk has length four, that is, the topological dual graph of $G$ in $S$ is 4-regular. Aside from the case where $S$ is the torus or Klein bottle, an $S$-grid must have vertices of degrees other than four. Let the sequence of degrees other than four in $G$ be called the cur

Luka C. Popović, Jelena Kovacević-Dojcinović, Sladjana Marceta-Mandić

We investigate the structure of the Mg II broad line emission region in a sample of 284 Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), through comparing the kinematical parameters of the broad Mg II and broad H$β$ lines. We found that the Mg II emitting region has more complex kinematics than the H$β$ one. It seems that the \ion{Mg}{ii} broad line originates from two

Elias Gonzalez, David A. Weinberg

For the general monic quintic with real coefficients, polynomial conditions on the coefficients are derived as directly and as simply as possible from the Sturm sequence that will determine the real and complex root multiplicities together with the order of the real roots with respect to multiplicity.

Viktor Kazakov, Franz J. Király

In this paper we present MLaut (Machine Learning AUtomation Toolbox) for the python data science ecosystem. MLaut automates large-scale evaluation and benchmarking of machine learning algorithms on a large number of datasets. MLaut provides a high-level workflow interface to machine algorithm algorithms, implements a local back-end to a database of dataset c

Qi Cai, Mingyi Hong, Yongxin Chen, Zhaoran Wang

We study the global convergence of generative adversarial imitation learning for linear quadratic regulators, which is posed as minimax optimization. To address the challenges arising from non-convex-concave geometry, we analyze the alternating gradient algorithm and establish its Q-linear rate of convergence to a unique saddle point, which simultaneously re

Bolivia Cuevas-Otahola, Cecilia Mateu, Fabiola Hernández-Pérez, Juan José Downes

The realistic simulation of variable star populations is fundamental to determine the selection function and contamination in existing and upcoming multi-epoch surveys. We present \ellisa, a simulator that produces an ensemble of mock light curves for a population of eclipsing binaries obtained from physical and orbital parameters consistent with different g

Daniel Duviol Tcheutia

Every classical orthogonal polynomial system $p_n(x)$ satisfies a three-term recurrence relation of the type \[ p_{n+1}(x)=(A_nx+B_n)p_n(x)-C_np_{n-1}(x)~ (n=0,1,2,\ldots, p_{-1}\equiv 0), \] with $C_nA_nA_{n-1}>0$. Moreover, Favard's theorem states that the converse is true. A general method to derive the coefficients $A_n$, $B_n$, $C_n$ in terms of the

Václav Blažej, Pavel Dvořák, Tomáš Valla

An online Ramsey game is a game between Builder and Painter, alternating in turns. They are given a graph $H$ and a graph $G$ of an infinite set of independent vertices. In each round Builder draws an edge and Painter colors it either red or blue. Builder wins if after some finite round there is a monochromatic copy of the graph $H$, otherwise Painter wins.

Yue Yu, S. Raghu

Motivated by recent measurements of strain effects on the transition temperature (T$_c$) of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, we study the strain response of a two-dimensional chiral p-wave supercoductor. We focus on the effects of inhomgeneous strain fields, which are always present in any such experiment, and which have been neglected in previous theoretical treatments. We s

Andrei Tokovinin

Spectroscopic orbits are determined for inner subsystems in nine stellar hierachies (HIP 2863, 4974, 8353, 28796, 35261, 92929, 115272, 115552, and 117596). Their periods range from 2.5 to 312 days. For each system, estimates of masses, orbital inclination and other parameters are given.

Gebhard Böckle, Wojciech Gajda, Sebastian Petersen

Let $X$ be a normal geometrically connected variety over a finite field $κ$ of characteristic~$p$. Let $E$ be a number field. Using automorphic methods over global function fields, we derive properties of the geometric monodromy groups of arbitrary connected $E$-rational semisimple compatible systems $(ρ_λ)$ of $n$-dimensional representations of the arithmet

K. Fallon, S. McVitie, W. Legrand, F. Ajejas

Chiral magnetic textures in ultrathin perpendicularly magnetised multilayer film stacks with an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction have been the focus of much research recently. The chirality associated with the broken inversion symmetry at the interface between an ultrathin ferromagnetic layer and a heavy metal with large spin-orbit coupling supp

Ángel Rincón, Ernesto Contreras, Pedro Bargueño, Benjamin Koch

In this work, we investigate four-dimensional planar black hole solutions in anti-de Sitter spacetimes in light of the so-called scale-dependent scenario. To obtain this new family of solutions, the classical couplings of the theory, i.e., the gravitational coupling and the cosmological constant, are not taken to be fixed values anymore. Thus, those classica

YanYan Li, Luc Nguyen, Bo Wang

We study entire continuous viscosity solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic equations involving the conformal Hessian. We prove the strong comparison principle and Hopf Lemma for (non-uniformly) elliptic equations when one of the competitors is $C^{1,1}$. We obtain as a consequence a Liouville theorem for entire solutions which are approximable by $C^{1,1}$ s

J. Edward Hu, Rachel Rudinger, Matt Post, Benjamin Van Durme

We present ParaBank, a large-scale English paraphrase dataset that surpasses prior work in both quantity and quality. Following the approach of ParaNMT, we train a Czech-English neural machine translation (NMT) system to generate novel paraphrases of English reference sentences. By adding lexical constraints to the NMT decoding procedure, however, we are abl

Tong Qin, Shaozu Cao, Jie Pan, Shaojie Shen

Accurate state estimation is a fundamental problem for autonomous robots. To achieve locally accurate and globally drift-free state estimation, multiple sensors with complementary properties are usually fused together. Local sensors (camera, IMU, LiDAR, etc) provide precise pose within a small region, while global sensors (GPS, magnetometer, barometer, etc)

Tong Qin, Jie Pan, Shaozu Cao, Shaojie Shen

Nowadays, more and more sensors are equipped on robots to increase robustness and autonomous ability. We have seen various sensor suites equipped on different platforms, such as stereo cameras on ground vehicles, a monocular camera with an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) on mobile phones, and stereo cameras with an IMU on aerial robots. Although many algorit

Ravikant Saini, Deepak Mishra, Swades De

Joint resource allocation involving optimization of subcarrier allocation, subcarrier pairing (SCP), and power allocation in a cooperative secure orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system with untrusted users is considered. Both amplify and forward (AF), and decode and forward (DF) modes of operations are considered with indi

Chathuranga Sirimanna, Shanshan Cao, Abhijit Majumder

Vacuum and medium modified fragmentation functions are used to study the properties of hadrons produced in hard interactions, in $p$-$p$ and $A$-$A$ collisions, respectively. We study the modification of reconstructed jets and high transverse momentum (high-$p_\mathrm{T}$) hadrons as they propagate through a dense medium. Jets and jet modification are studie

Lijun Zhu, D. C. Ralph, R. A. Buhrman

Despite intense efforts it has remained unresolved whether and how interfacial spin-orbit coupling (ISOC) affects spin transport across heavy metal (HM)/ferromagnet (FM) interfaces. Here we report conclusive experiment evidence that the ISOC at HM/FM interfaces is the dominant mechanism for "spin memory loss". An increase in ISOC significantly reduce

Furkan Gursoy, Bertan Badur

This study proposes a novel network growth model named ComAwareNetGrowth which aims to mimic evolution of real-world social networks. The model works in discrete time. At each timestep, a new link (I) within-community or (II) anywhere in the network is created (a) between existing nodes or (b) between an existing node and a newcoming node, based on (i) rando

Matthew Kelly, Jacobus H. M. van Amerongen, Marleen Balvert, David Craft

Within the setting of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and the fully continuous version of IMRT called volumetric modulated radiation therapy (VMAT), we consider the problem of matching a given fluence map as well as possible in limited time by the use of a linear accelerator (linac) with a multi-leaf collimator (MLC). We introduce two modeling s

Ahmad Beirami, Faramarz Fekri

Packets originated from an information source in the network can be highly correlated. These packets are often routed through different paths, and compressing them requires to process them individually. Traditional universal compression solutions would not perform well over a single packet because of the limited data available for learning the unknown source

Josep M. Paredes, Pol Bordas

Gamma-ray binaries (GBs) have been object of intense studies in the last decade. From an observational perspective, GBs are phenomenologically similar to most X-ray binary systems in terms of their broad-band emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, being segregated from this source population by showing a maximum of their spectral energy distrib

Colton Magnant, Ingo Schiermeyer

Given a graph $H$, the $k$-colored Gallai Ramsey number $gr_{k}(K_{3} : H)$ is defined to be the minimum integer $n$ such that every $k$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph on $n$ vertices contains either a rainbow triangle or a monochromatic copy of $H$. Fox et al. [J. Fox, A. Grinshpun, and J. Pach. The Erd{\H o}s-Hajnal conjecture for rainbow tria

E. Marini, F. Dell'Agli, M. Di Criscienzo, S. Puccetti

We consider a small sample of oxygen-rich, asymptotic giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope, exhibiting a peculiar spectral energy distribution, which can be hardly explained by the common assumption that dust around AGB stars is primarily composed of silicate grains. We suggest that this uncommon class of

Ravikant Saini, Abhishek Jindal, Swades De

In this paper, we consider the problem of resource allocation in the orthogonal frequency division multiple access system with single source and M untrusted users in presence of a friendly jammer. The jammer is used to improve either the weighted sum secure rate or the overall system fairness. The formulated optimization problem in both the cases is a mixed

Dong-Jun Han, Jy-yong Sohn, Jaekyun Moon

Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in current wired/wireless networks. In this paper, we consider the straggler problem in coded distributed computing with li

P. Blasi, E. Amato

The escape of cosmic rays from the Galaxy is expected to shape their spectrum inside the Galaxy. Yet, this phenomenon is very poorly understood and, in the absence of a physical description, it is usually modelled as free escape from a given boundary, typically located at a few kpc distance from the Galactic disc. We show that the assumption of free escape l

T. Peyrot, Ch. Beurthe, S. Coumar, M. Roulliay

We report on the fabrication of an all-glass vapor cell with a thickness varying linearly between (exactly) 0 and ~ 1 μm. The cell is made in Borofloat glass that allows super polish roughness, a full optical bonding assembling and easy filling with alkali vapors. We detail the challenging manufacture steps and present experimental spectra resulting from off

Alessandro Pluchino, Giulio Burgio, Andrea Rapisarda, Alessio Emanuele Biondo

Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is qualitative at best. In this paper we leverage the bibliographic data set of the American Physical Society to quantify the role of interdisciplinarity in physics, and that of talent and luck

Sigmund Albert Gorski, Benjamin Andow, Adwait Nadkarni, Sunil Manandhar

Billions of users rely on the security of the Android platform to protect phones, tablets, and many different types of consumer electronics. While Android's permission model is well studied, the enforcement of the protection policy has received relatively little attention. Much of this enforcement is spread across system services, taking the form of hard

Baptiste Cecconi

This chapter introduces the concepts of polarimetry in the case of low frequency radio astronomy. In this regime radio waves are usually not the signature of atomic or molecular transitions lines, but rather that of unstable particle distribution functions releasing their free energy through electromagnetic radiation. As the radio source region is usually ma

Marcos Oliveira, Ronaldo Menezes

Though crime is linked to different socio-economic factors, it exhibits remarkable regularities regardless of cities' particularities. In this chapter, we consider two fundamental regularities in crime regarding two essential aspects of criminal activity: time and space. For more than one century, we know that (1) crime occurs unevenly within a city and

Francis Garuba, Marc Goerigk, Peter Jacko

To solve a real-world problem, the modeler usually needs to make a trade-off between model complexity and usefulness. This is also true for robust optimization, where a wide range of models for uncertainty, so-called uncertainty sets, have been proposed. However, while these sets have been mainly studied from a theoretical perspective, there is little resear

Ravikant Saini, Deepak Mishra, Swades De

In this letter we consider resource allocation for OFDMA-based secure cooperative communication by employing a trusted Decode and Forward (DF) relay among the untrusted users. We formulate two optimization problems, namely, (i) sum rate maximization subject to individual power constraints on source and relay, and (ii) sum power minimization subject to a fair

Eva-Maria C. Hols, Stefan Kratsch

In the NP-hard Edge Dominating Set problem (EDS) we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and an integer $k$, and need to determine whether there is a set $F\subseteq E$ of at most $k$ edges that are incident with all (other) edges of $G$. It is known that this problem is fixed-parameter tractable and admits a polynomial kernel when parameterized by $k$. A caveat for

Serena Dipierro, Pietro Miraglio, Enrico Valdinoci

This paper recalls some classical motivations in fluid dynamics leading to a partial differential equation which is prescribed on a domain whose boundary possesses two connected components, one endowed with a Dirichlet datum, and the other endowed with a Neumann datum. The problem can also be reformulated as a nonlocal problem on the component endowed with t

J. -M. Richard, A. Valcarce, J. Vijande

We use a constituent model to analyze the stability of pentaquark $\bar Q qqqq$ configurations with a heavy antiquark $\bar c$ or $\bar b$, and four light quarks $uuds$, $ddsu$ or $ssud$. The interplay between chromoelectric and chromomagnetic effects is not favorable, and, as a consequence, no bound state is found below the lowest dissociation threshold.

T. Bouwmans, B. Garcia-Garcia

Computer vision applications based on videos often require the detection of moving objects in their first step. Background subtraction is then applied in order to separate the background and the foreground. In literature, background subtraction is surely among the most investigated field in computer vision providing a big amount of publications. Most of them

J. E. García-Ramos, J Dukelsky, P Pérez-Fernández, J. M. Arias

The Agassi model is a schematic two-level model that involves pairing and monopole-monopole interactions. It is, therefore, an extension of the well known Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model. In this paper we review the algebraic formulation of an extension of the Agassi model as well as its bosonic realization through the Schwinger representation. Moreover, a

Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Benjamin Livshits

Asynchrony has become an inherent element of JavaScript, as an effort to improve the scalability and performance of modern web applications. To this end, JavaScript provides programmers with a wide range of constructs and features for developing code that performs asynchronous computations, including but not limited to timers, promises, and non-blocking I/O.

S. Ortolani, D. Nardiello, A. Pérez-Villegas, E. Bica

The low-latitude globular clusters Terzan 10 and Djorgovski 1 are vprojected in the Galactic bulge, in a Galactic region highly affected by extinction. A discrepancy of a factor of ~2 exists in the literature in regards to the distance determination of these clusters. We revisit the colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of these two globular clusters with the pur

Yuta Takahashi

Leptoquarks (LQs) are hypothetical bosons, each coupling to a lepton and a quark of a given generation. They recently got particular attention, as the "TeV-scale LQ" might explain observed anomalies reported by dedicated B physics experiments. In these proceedings, the recent progress of the direct searches on LQs at CMS experiment is presented. The

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai

KAGRA is a second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detector with 3-km arms constructed at Kamioka, Gifu in Japan. It is now in its final installation phase, which we call bKAGRA (baseline KAGRA), with scientific observations expected to begin in late 2019. One of the advantages of KAGRA is its underground location of at least 200 m below the gro

Jordi Paillisse, Jordi Subira, Albert Lopez, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal

The specification and enforcement of network-wide policies in a single administrative domain is common in today's networks and considered as already resolved. However, this is not the case for multi-administrative domains, e.g. among different enterprises. In such situation, new problems arise that challenge classical solutions such as PKIs, which suffer

Paige Randall North

It has been known that categorical interpretations of dependent type theory with Sigma- and Id-types induce weak factorization systems. When one has a weak factorization system (L, R) on a category C in hand, it is then natural to ask whether or not (L, R) harbors an interpretation of dependent type theory with Sigma- and Id- (and possibly Pi-) types. Using

I. B. Abdurakhmanov, Z. Kanokov, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko

The non-Markovian dynamics of a charged particle linearly coupled to a neutral bosonic heat bath is investigated in an external uniform magnetic field. The analytical expressions for the time-dependent and asymptotic friction and diffusion coefficients, cyclotron frequencies, variances of the coordinate and momentum, and orbital magnetic moments are derived.

Joshua A. Haustein, Isac Arnekvist, Johannes Stork, Kaiyu Hang

This paper addresses non-prehensile rearrangement planning problems where a robot is tasked to rearrange objects among obstacles on a planar surface. We present an efficient planning algorithm that is designed to impose few assumptions on the robot's non-prehensile manipulation abilities and is simple to adapt to different robot embodiments. For this, we

Kishan Babu Kancharagunta, Shiv Ram Dubey

The primary motivation of Image-to-Image Transformation is to convert an image of one domain to another domain. Most of the research has been focused on the task of image transformation for a set of pre-defined domains. Very few works are reported that actually developed a common framework for image-to-image transformation for different domains. With the int

Razvan V. Marinescu, Arman Eshaghi, Marco Lorenzi, Alexandra L. Young

Here we present DIVE: Data-driven Inference of Vertexwise Evolution. DIVE is an image-based disease progression model with single-vertex resolution, designed to reconstruct long-term patterns of brain pathology from short-term longitudinal data sets. DIVE clusters vertex-wise biomarker measurements on the cortical surface that have similar temporal dynamics

Raluca-Maria Stan, Sanjoy K. Mahatha, Marco Bianchi, Charlotte E. Sanders

We report on the epitaxial growth of single layer NbS$_2$ on Au(111) and determine both its crystalline and electronic structure by a combination of low-energy electron diffraction, scanning tunnelling microscopy and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The layer is found to grow in the 1H structural phase with a lattice constant of (3.29$\pm$0.03)~Å,

Han Yan, Zexin Feng, Shunli Shang, Xiaoning Wang

Spintronic devices based on antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials hold the promise of fast switching speeds and robustness against magnetic fields. Different device concepts have been predicted and experimentally demonstrated, such as low-temperature AFM tunnel junctions that operate as spin-valves, or room-temperature AFM memory, for which either thermal heatin

Guillaume Michel

The motion of a container filled with fluid perturbs the free surface and may result in spilling. In practice, most of the energy is localized in the modes of lowest frequencies (the gravest modes), and sloshing can be predicted once the dynamics of these modes is known. In this Rapid Communication, we investigate the nonlinear interactions between such grav