April 2019 arXiv papers — page 85

Mohammad Hemmati, Vahid Rashtchi, Ahmad Maleki, Siroos Toofan

There are two main methods to implement FIR filters: software and hardware. In the software method, an FIR filter can be implemented within the processor by programming; it uses too much memory and it is extremely time-consuming while it gives the design more configurability. In most hardware-based implementations of FIR filters, Analog-to-Digital (A/D) and

K. S. D. Ishwari, A. K. R. R. Aneeze, S. Sudheesan, H. J. D. A. Karunaratne

Question Answering has recently received high attention from artificial intelligence communities due to the advancements in learning technologies. Early question answering models used rule-based approaches and moved to the statistical approach to address the vastly available information. However, statistical approaches are shown to underperform in handling t

Anke Kreuzer, Jorge Amaya, Norbert Eicker, Estela Suarez

The DEEP projects have developed a variety of hardware and software technologies aiming at improving the efficiency and usability of next generation high-performance computers. They evolve around an innovative concept for heterogeneous systems: the Cluster-Booster architecture. In it, a general purpose cluster is tightly coupled to a many-core system (the Bo

Pradosh Ranjan Sahoo, Abhilash Patel, Sandip Ghosh, Asim K. Naskar

This work considers the problem of selecting overlapping control structures to remove decentralized fixed modes. The selection of such controller is conventionally carried out based on minimal overlapping communications. In this paper, this selection is proposed to be through approximate decentralized fixed mode measure. Also, a framework for improving the c

Tang Liu, Daniela Tuninetti

This paper introduces the ${\it decentralized}$ Pliable Index CODing (PICOD) problem: a variant of the Index Coding (IC) problem, where a central transmitter serves ${\it pliable}$ users with message side information; here, pliable refers to the fact that a user is satisfied by decoding ${\it any}$ $t$ messages that are not in its side information set. In th

Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

In recent years, using drone, also known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in close-distance visual inspection has became an active area in many disciplines. However, many challenges still remain before we can achieve autonomous inspection, especially when inspecting complex structures. The complex civil structures, such as bridges, dams and wind turbines, a

Kinga Kita, Łukasz Kidziński

Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death worldwide. Proper estimation of car accident risk is critical for appropriate allocation of resources in healthcare, insurance, civil engineering, and other industries. We show how images of houses are predictive of car accidents. We analyze 20,000 addresses of insurance company clients, collect a correspond

Umberto Gostoli, Eric Silverman

Current demographic trends in the UK include a fast-growing elderly population and dropping birth rates, and demand for social care amongst the aged is rising. The UK depends on informal social care -- family members or friends providing care -- for some 50\% of care provision. However, lower birth rates and a graying population mean that care availability i

Maurizio De Sanctis

A Dirac shell model is developed for the study of baryon spectroscopy, taking into account the most relevant results of the quark-diquark models. The lack of translational invariance of the shell model is avoided, in the present work, by introducing a scalar-isoscalar fictitious particle that represents the origin of quark shell interaction; in this way the

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello

We consider the problem of localizing visitors in a cultural site from egocentric (first person) images. Localization information can be useful both to assist the user during his visit (e.g., by suggesting where to go and what to see next) and to provide behavioral information to the manager of the cultural site (e.g., how much time has been spent by visitor

Junpeng Hou, Zhitong Li, Qing Gu, Chuanwei Zhang

Parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, originally conceived for non-Hermitian open quantum systems, has opened an excitingly new avenue for the coherent control of light. By tailoring optical gain and loss in integrated photonic structures, $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric non-Hermitian photonics has found applications in many fields ranging from single mode lasing

Gábor Gosztolya, Ádám Pintér, László Tóth, Tamás Grósz

When using ultrasound video as input, Deep Neural Network-based Silent Speech Interfaces usually rely on the whole image to estimate the spectral parameters required for the speech synthesis step. Although this approach is quite straightforward, and it permits the synthesis of understandable speech, it has several disadvantages as well. Besides the inability

P. S. Pal, A. M. Jayannavar

The second law of thermodynamics is probabilistic in nature. Its formulation requires that the state of a system be described by a probability distribution. A natural question, thereby, arises as to whether a prior knowledge about the state of the system affects the second law. This question has now been nurtured over a century and its inception was done by

Peng Shi, Jimmy Lin

We present simple BERT-based models for relation extraction and semantic role labeling. In recent years, state-of-the-art performance has been achieved using neural models by incorporating lexical and syntactic features such as part-of-speech tags and dependency trees. In this paper, extensive experiments on datasets for these two tasks show that without usi

Philip D. Mannheim, Peter Lowdon, Stanley J. Brodsky

We study the structure of scalar field light front quantization vacuum graphs. In instant time quantization both non-vacuum and vacuum graphs can equivalently be described by either the off-shell four-dimensional Feynman diagram approach or the on-shell three-dimensional Fock space approach, with this being the case since the relevant Feynman diagrams are gi

Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov, Vitaly Akimkin, Dmitri Wiebe, Eduard Vorobyov

Dust is known to drift and grow in protoplanetary discs, which results in dust segregation over the disc extent. Maps of the spectral index $α$ are a common tool for studying the dust content in protoplanetary discs. The analysis of observationally derived maps reveals significant gradients of the spectral index, confirming that dust evolves in the disc, but

Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Kristen Grauman, Giovanni Maria Farinella

Although First Person Vision systems can sense the environment from the user's perspective, they are generally unable to predict his intentions and goals. Since human activities can be decomposed in terms of atomic actions and interactions with objects, intelligent wearable systems would benefit from the ability to anticipate user-object interactions. Ev

Xiaofei Li, Laurent Girin, Radu Horaud

This paper addresses the problem of under-determinded speech source separation from multichannel microphone singals, i.e. the convolutive mixtures of multiple sources. The time-domain signals are first transformed to the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. To represent the room filters in the STFT domain, instead of the widely-used narrowband assumpt

Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Dominic De Franco, Alison Pease, Catherine Pelachaud

Virtual humans need to be persuasive in order to promote behaviour change in human users. While several studies have focused on understanding the numerous aspects that influence the degree of persuasion, most of them are limited to dyadic interactions. In this paper, we present an evaluation study focused on understanding the effects of multiple agents on us

Rinita Roy, Linus W. Dietz

Mobile proactive tourist recommender systems can support tourists by recommending the best choice depending on different contexts related to herself and the environment. In this paper, we propose to utilize wearable sensors to gather health information about a tourist and use them for recommending tourist activities. We discuss a range of wearable devices, s

Lina Chen, Zhen Wang, Gaomin Wang, Hangwen Guo

Understanding and manipulating properties emerging at a surface or an interface require a thorough knowledge of structure-property relationships. We report a study of a prototype oxide system, La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 grown on SrTiO3(001), by combining in-situ angle-resolved x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ex-situ x-ray diffraction, and scanning transmission electro

Konstantinos Papadopoulos, Girum Demisse, Enjie Ghorbel, Michel Antunes

The Dense Trajectories concept is one of the most successful approaches in action recognition, suitable for scenarios involving a significant amount of motion. However, due to noise and background motion, many generated trajectories are irrelevant to the actual human activity and can potentially lead to performance degradation. In this paper, we propose Loca

Hongwei Song, Jiqing Han, Shiwen Deng

One of the biggest challenges of acoustic scene classification (ASC) is to find proper features to better represent and characterize environmental sounds. Environmental sounds generally involve more sound sources while exhibiting less structure in temporal spectral representations. However, the background of an acoustic scene exhibits temporal homogeneity in

Gianluca Teza, Stefano Iubini, Marco Baiesi, Attilio L. Stella

Negative differential mobility is the phenomenon in which the velocity of a particle decreases when the force driving it increases. We study this phenomenon in Markov jump models where a particle moves in the presence of walls that act as traps. We consider transition rates that obey local detailed balance but differ in normalisation, the inclusion of a rate

Jing Xu, Zhimin Hou, Zhi Liu, Hong Qiao

In this paper, we present an overview of robotic peg-in-hole assembly and analyze two main strategies: contact model-based and contact model-free strategies. More specifically, we first introduce the contact model control approaches, including contact state recognition and compliant control two steps. Additionally, we focus on a comprehensive analysis of the

Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li

Blockchains, and specifically smart contracts, have promised to create fair and transparent trading ecosystems. Unfortunately, we show that this promise has not been met. We document and quantify the widespread and rising deployment of arbitrage bots in blockchain systems, specifically in decentralized exchanges (or "DEXes"). Like high-frequency trad

Alexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Chayes

There is a growing body of work that proposes methods for mitigating bias in machine learning systems. These methods typically rely on access to protected attributes such as race, gender, or age. However, this raises two significant challenges: (1) protected attributes may not be available or it may not be legal to use them, and (2) it is often desirable to

Fabio D. A. Aarao Reis, Vaughan R. Voller

We study a random walk infiltration (RWI) model, in homogeneous and in fractal media, with localized sources at their boundaries. The particles released at a source, which is maintained at a constant density, execute unbiased random walks over a lattice; it represents solute infiltration by diffusion into a medium in contact with a reservoir. A scaling appro

Xiaobin Ma, Zhuxiong Ye, Liyang Xie, Zhen Guo

We present a machine built for experiments with ultracold mixtures of strontium and lithium atoms. The machine includes a science vacuum chamber and the relevant laser systems for cooling and trapping the atoms. With this machine, we realize a D2-line compressed magneto-optical trap (MOT) for ${^6}$Li and a narrow-linewidth 689-nm MOT for $^{84}$Sr, obtainin

Andre Brandstötter, Adrian Girschik, Philipp Ambichl, Stefan Rotter

Electronic matter waves traveling through the weak and smoothly varying disorder potential of a semi-conductor show branching behavior instead of a smooth spreading of flow. By transferring this phenomenon to optics, we show how the branched flow of light can be controlled to propagate along a single branch rather than through many of them at the same time.

Eimear Byrne, Alessandro Neri, Alberto Ravagnani, John Sheekey

We present the theory of rank-metric codes with respect to the 3-tensors that generate them. We define the generator tensor and the parity check tensor of a matrix code, and describe the properties of a code through these objects. We define the tensor rank of a code to be the tensor rank of its generating tensors, and propose that this quantity is a signific

Jaza M. Abdullah, Tarik A. Rashid

In this paper, a novel swarm intelligent algorithm is proposed, known as the fitness dependent optimizer (FDO). The bee swarming reproductive process and their collective decision-making have inspired this algorithm; it has no algorithmic connection with the honey bee algorithm or the artificial bee colony algorithm. It is worth mentioning that FDO is consid

S. Fagioli, Y. Jaafra

We investigate existence of stationary solutions to an aggregation/diffusion system of PDEs, modelling a two species predator-prey interaction. In the model this interaction is described by non-local potentials that are mutually proportional by a negative constant $-α$, with $α>0$. Each species is also subject to non-local self-attraction forces together wit

Dmitry Blinov, Vasiliki Pavlidou

After three years of polarimetric monitoring of blazars, the RoboPol project has uncovered several key characteristics of polarimetric rotations in the optical for these most variable sources. The most important of these is that polarization properties of the synchrotron emission in the optical appear to be directly linked with gamma-ray activity. In this pa

Ademir Alves Ribeiro, Jose Renato Ramos Barbosa

In this short note, we discuss how the optimality conditions for the problem of minimizing a multivariate function subject to equality constraints have been dealt with in undergraduate Calculus. We are particularly interested in the 2 or 3-dimensional cases, which are the most common cases in Calculus courses. Besides giving sufficient conditions to a critic

J. Rekier, A. Trinh, S. A. Triana, V. Dehant

We propose a numerical method to compute the inertial modes of a container with near-spherical geometry based on the fully spectral discretisation of the angular and radial directions using spherical harmonics and Gegenbauer polynomial expansion respectively. This allows to solve simultaneously the Poincare equation and the no penetration condition as an alg

Björn Feldkord, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

We introduce the mobile server problem, inspired by current trends to move computational tasks from cloud structures to multiple devices close to the end user. An example for this are embedded systems in autonomous cars that communicate in order to coordinate their actions. Our model is a variant of the classical Page Migration Problem. More formally, we con

D. Gagnier, M. Rieutord, C. Charbonnel, B. Putigny

The understanding of the rotational evolution of early-type stars is deeply related to that of anisotropic mass and angular momentum loss. In this paper, we aim to clarify the rotational evolution of rapidly rotating early-type stars along the main sequence (MS). We have used the 2D ESTER code to compute and evolve isolated rapidly rotating early-type stella

Kirichenko Lyudmyla, Radivilova Tamara

The paper proposes a solution an actual scientific problem related to load balancing and efficient utilization of resources of the distributed system. The proposed method is based on calculation of load CPU, memory, and bandwidth by flows of different classes of service for each server and the entire distributed system and taking into account multifractal pr

Carl J. Nelson, Philip T. G. Jackson, Boguslaw Obara

Accurate and reliable nuclei identification is an essential part of quantification in microscopy. A range of mathematical and machine learning approaches are used but all methods have limitations. Such limitations include sensitivity to user parameters or a need for pre-processing in classical approaches or the requirement for relatively large amounts of tra

Siddhartha Gadgil

We describe a case of an interplay between human and computer proving which played a role in the discovery of an interesting mathematical result. The unusual feature of the use of computers here was that a computer generated but human readable proof was read, understood, generalized and abstracted by mathematicians to obtain the key lemma in an interesting m

Hari Hara Suthan Chittoor, K V Sushena Sree, Prasad Krishnan

Consider an interference channel consisting of $K_T$ transmitters and $K_R$ receivers with AWGN noise and complex channel gains, and with $N$ files in the system. The one-shot $\mathsf{DoF}$ for this channel is the maximum number of receivers which can be served simultaneously with vanishing probability of error as the $\mathsf{SNR}$ grows large, under a cla

Daniel Floryan, Tyler Van Buren, Alexander J. Smits

Many swimming and flying animals are observed to cruise in a narrow range of Strouhal numbers, where the Strouhal number ${St = 2fA/U}$ is a dimensionless parameter that relates stroke frequency $f$, amplitude $A$, and forward speed $U$. Dolphins, sharks, bony fish, birds, bats, and insects typically cruise in the range $0.2 < St < 0.4$, which coincides with

Dylan Chapp, Danny Rorabaugh, Duncan Brown, Ewa Deelman

The PRIMAD model with its six components (i.e., Platform, Research Objective, Implementation, Methods, Actors, and Data), provides an abstract taxonomy to represent computational experiments and enforce reproducibility by design. In this paper, we assess the model applicability to a set of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) workflows

Jeppe Dakin, Steen Hannestad, Thomas Tram, Mischa Knabenhans

We present $N$-body simulations which are fully compatible with general relativity, with dark energy consistently included at both the background and perturbation level. We test our approach for dark energy parameterised as both a fluid, and using the parameterised post-Friedmann (PPF) formalism. In most cases, dark energy is very smooth relative to dark mat

Arno Solin, Manon Kok

Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a powerful framework for extrapolation, interpolation, and noise removal in regression and classification. This paper considers constraining GPs to arbitrarily-shaped domains with boundary conditions. We solve a Fourier-like generalised harmonic feature representation of the GP prior in the domain of interest, which both cons

Yousef Daradkeh Eid Mubarak, Lyudmyla Kirichenko, Tamara Radivilova

The paper discusses actual task of ensuring the quality of services in information networks with fractal traffic. The generalized approach to traffic management and quality of service based on the account of multifractal properties of the network traffic is proposed. To describe the multifractal traffic properties, it is proposed to use the Hurst exponent, t

Cheng Deng, Xianglong Liu, Chao Li, Dacheng Tao

Recent years have witnessed the quick progress of the hyperspectral images (HSI) classification. Most of existing studies either heavily rely on the expensive label information using the supervised learning or can hardly exploit the discriminative information borrowed from related domains. To address this issues, in this paper we show a novel framework addre

Fazlul MKK, Deepthi S, Farzana Y, Najnin A

The multidrug resistant Escherichia coli strains causes multiple clinical infections and has become a rising problem globally. The metallo-\b{eta}-lactamases encoding genes are very severe in gram-negative bacteria especially E. coli. This study was aimed to evaluate the prevalence of MBLs among the clinical isolates of E. coli. A total of 65 E. coli isolate

Lorenzo Audibert, Lucas Chesnel, Houssem Haddar

We use the inside-outside duality approach proposed by Kirsch-Lechleiter to identify transmission eigenvalues associated with artificial backgrounds. We prove that for well chosen artificial backgrounds, in particular for the ones with zero index of refraction at the inclusion location, one obtains a necessary and sufficient condition characterizing transmis

Jack Panter, Yonas Gizaw, Halim Kusumaatmaja

Superomniphobic textures are at the frontier of surface design for vast arrays of applications. Despite recent significant advances in fabrication methods for reentrant and doubly reentrant microstructures, design optimisation remains a major challenge. We overcome this in two stages. Firstly, we develop readily-generalisable computational methods to systema

Lu-Ji Wang, Xing-Tai Hu, Lin Li, Dong-Hui Xu

We theoretically study the Kondo screening of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity in the bulk of a type-II Weyl semimetal (WSM) by use of the variational wave function method. We consider a type-II WSM model with two Weyl nodes located on the $k_z$-axis, and the tilting of the Weyl cones are along the $k_x$ direction. Due to co-existing electron and hole pockets, t

Ottavio A. Croze, Vincent A. Martinez, Theresa Jakuszeit, Dario Dell&#39;Arciprete

The experimental characterisation of the swimming statistics of populations of microorganisms or artificially propelled particles is essential for understanding the physics of active systems and their exploitation. Here, we construct a theoretical framework to extract information on the three-dimensional motion of micro-swimmers from the Intermediate Scatter

A. F. Marino, A. P. Milone, A. Renzini, F. D&#39;Antona

The HST UV Survey of Globular Clusters (GCs) has investigated GCs and their stellar populations. In previous papers of this series we have introduced a pseudo two-color diagram, &#34;chromosome map&#34; (ChM), that maximises the separation between the multiple populations. We have identified two main classes of GCs: Type I (~83% of the objects) and Type II,

Rodrigo A. Ricco, Bruno O. S. Teixeira

If a dynamic system has active constraints on the state vector and they are known, then taking them into account during modeling is often advantageous. Unfortunately, in the constrained discrete-time state-space estimation, the state equality constraint is defined for a parameter matrix and not on a parameter vector as commonly found in regression problems.

Jithin Jagannath, Tommaso Melodia

Visible Light Ad Hoc Networks (LANETs) is being perceived as an emerging technology to complement Radio Frequency (RF) based ad hoc networks to reduce congestion in the overloaded RF spectrum. LANET is intended to support scenarios requiring dense deployment and high data rates. In Visible Light Communication (VLC), most of the attention has been centered ar

C. Tannous, J. Gieraltowski

This is a comment on the PRL: Gravitational mass $M$ carried by sound waves by A. Esposito, R. Krichevsky and A. Nicolis, Phys.Rev. Lett. {\bf 122}, 084501 (2019).

Nikolay Ivanov, Andrey Konovko, Anatoli Andreev

In this paper concave surface scanning method based on x-ray scattering in whispering gallery effect is considered. The capabilities of this method are studied based on ray-tracing computer simulation. The dependence of the output x-ray beam on the RMS roughness and minimum detectable imperfection height estimations were obtained.

Xiaofei Li, Simon Leglaive, Laurent Girin, Radu Horaud

We propose a method using a long short-term memory (LSTM) network to estimate the noise power spectral density (PSD) of single-channel audio signals represented in the short time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. An LSTM network common to all frequency bands is trained, which processes each frequency band individually by mapping the noisy STFT magnitude seque

D. Fuertes Marrón, E. Barrigón, M. Ochoa, I. Artacho

Electric coupling between subcells of a monolithically grown multijunction solar cell in short circuit allows their simultaneous and independent characterization by means of photo- and electroreflectance. The photovoltage generated by selective absorption of the pump beam in a given subcell during photoreflectance measurements results in reverse biasing the

Kwang In Kim, Hyung Jin Chang

We present a new predictor combination algorithm that improves a given task predictor based on potentially relevant reference predictors. Existing approaches are limited in that, to discover the underlying task dependence, they either require known parametric forms of all predictors or access to a single fixed dataset on which all predictors are jointly eval

Brian Appelbe, Mark Sherlock, Omar El-Amiri, Chris Walsh

A Fokker-Planck model for the interaction of fast ions with the thermal electrons in a quasi-neutral plasma is developed. When the fast ion population has a net flux (i.e. the distribution of the fast ions is anisotropic in velocity space) the electron distribution function is significantly perturbed from Maxwellian by collisions with the fast ions, even if

Alessandro Seganti, Helena Sobol, Iryna Orlova, Hannam Kim

The paper presents a system developed for the SemEval-2019 competition Task 5 hat-Eval Basile et al. (2019) (team name: LU Team) and Task 6 OffensEval Zampieri et al. (2019b) (team name: NLPR@SRPOL), where we achieved 2nd position in Subtask C. The system combines in an ensemble several models (LSTM, Transformer, OpenAI&#39;s GPT, Random forest, SVM) with va

Marianne Akian, Stéphane Gaubert, Julien Grand-Clément, Jérémie Guillaud

Entropy games and matrix multiplication games have been recently introduced by Asarin et al. They model the situation in which one player (Despot) wishes to minimize the growth rate of a matrix product, whereas the other player (Tribune) wishes to maximize it. We develop an operator approach to entropy games. This allows us to show that entropy games can be

Eric Carlen, Raffaele Esposito, Joel Leibowitz, Rossana Marra

We continue our investigation of kinetic models of a one-dimensional gas in contact with homogeneous thermal reservoirs at different temperatures. Nonlinear collisional interactions between particles are modeled by a so-called BGK dynamics which conserves local energy and particle density. Weighting the nonlinear BGK term with a parameter $α\in [0,1]$, and t

Cédric Delaunay

In this paper, we implement the Russian standard block cipher Grasshopper on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). We also study the Correlation Power Analysis attack, which is a special type of side-channel attack proposed by Brier et al. To face this kind of attack, we propose a solution of software countermeasure, and we present the associated implementat

V. Avrigeanu, M. Avrigeanu

Background: Further studies of high-precision measurements of alpha-induced reaction data below the Coulomb barrier have still raised questions about the alpha-particle optical model potential (OMP) within various mass ranges, i.e. for 64Zn, 108Cd, 113,115In, 121,123Sb, and 191,193Ir target nuclei. Purpose: The accuracy as well as eventual uncertainties and/

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian

PKS 1830-211 is a known macrolensed quasar located at a redshift of z=2.5. Its high-energy gamma-ray emission has been detected with the Fermi-LAT instrument and evidence for lensing was obtained by several authors from its high-energy data. Observations of PKS 1830-211 were taken with the H.E.S.S. array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes in August

Elżbieta Adamus, Paweł Bogdan

In our previous paper an effective algorithm for inverting polynomial automorphisms was proposed. Also the class of Pascal finite polynomial automorphisms was introduced. Pascal finite polynomial maps constitute a generalization of exponential automorphisms to positive characteristic. In this note we explore properties of the algorithm while using Segre homo

Peter Lambert-Cole

We give a new characterization of symplectic surfaces in CP^2 via bridge trisections. Specifically, a minimal genus surface in CP^2 is smoothly isotopic to a symplectic surface if and only if it is smoothly isotopic to a surface in transverse bridge position. We discuss several potential applications, including the classification of unit 2-knots, establishin

Charalampos Androulidakis, Emmanuel N. Koukaras, Maria Hadjinicolaou, Costas Galiotis

The mechanical behavior of graphitic materials is greatly affected by the weak interlayer bonding with van der Waals forces for a range of thickness from nano to macroscale. Herein, we present a comprehensive study of the effect of layer thickness on the compression behavior of graphitic materials such as graphene which are fully embedded in polymer matrices

Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi

The arm race between spambots and spambot-detectors is made of several cycles (or generations): a new wave of spambots is created (and new spam is spread), new spambot filters are derived and old spambots mutate (or evolve) to new species. Recently, with the diffusion of the adversarial learning approach, a new practice is emerging: to manipulate on purpose

Chengyuan Wu, Bo Wang

The carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) + He star channel is one of the promising ways for producing type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with short delay times. Recent studies found that carbon under the He-shell can be ignited if the mass-accretion rate of CO WD is higher than a critical rate (about 2 * 10^-6 Msun/yr), triggering an inwardly propagating carbon flame.

Rajesh Kumar, Arvind Kumar

We investigate the mass-shift of $P$-wave charmonium (${χ_c}_0$, ${χ_c}_1$) and $S$ and $P$-wave bottomonium ($η_b$, $Υ$, ${χ_b}_0$ and ${χ_b}_1$) states in magnetized hot asymmetric nuclear matter using the unification of QCD sum rules (QCDSR) and chiral $SU(3)$ model. Within QCDSR, we use two approaches, $i.e.$, moment sum rule and Borel sum rule. The magn

Nikita Araslanov, Constantin Rothkopf, Stefan Roth

Most approaches to visual scene analysis have emphasised parallel processing of the image elements. However, one area in which the sequential nature of vision is apparent, is that of segmenting multiple, potentially similar and partially occluded objects in a scene. In this work, we revisit the recurrent formulation of this challenging problem in the context

Heybetkulu Mustafayev

Let $A$ be a bounded linear operator on a complex Banach space $X.$ For a given $α\geq 0,$ we consider the class $\mathcal{D}_{A}^{α}\left( \mathbb{R} \right) $ of all bounded linear operators $T$ on $X$ for which there exists a constant $C_{T}>0$, such that \begin{equation*} \left\Vert e^{tA}Te^{-tA}\right\Vert \leq C_{T}\left( 1+\left\vert t\right\vert \ri

Phong Nguyen-Ha, Lam Huynh, Esa Rahtu, Janne Heikkila

The problem of predicting a novel view of the scene using an arbitrary number of observations is a challenging problem for computers as well as for humans. This paper introduces the Generative Adversarial Query Network (GAQN), a general learning framework for novel view synthesis that combines Generative Query Network (GQN) and Generative Adversarial Network

Nikolay Sh. Izmailian, Vladimir V. Papoyan, Robert M. Ziff

We consider the dimer model on the rectangular $2M \times 2N$ lattice with free boundary conditions. We derive exact expressions for the coefficients in the asymptotic expansion of the free energy in terms of the elliptic theta functions ($θ_2, θ_3, θ_4$) and the elliptic integral of second kind ($E$), up to 22nd order. Surprisingly we find that ratio of the

Youjin Kim, Hyun Jong Yang

Although there have been extensive studies on transmit beamforming in multi-input single-output (MISO) multicell networks, achieving optimal sum-rate with limited channel state information (CSI) is still a challenge even with a single user per cell. A novel cooperative downlink multicell MISO beamforming scheme is proposed with highly limited information exc

Xiaohong Li, Jun Zhang, Shuhong Yang, Yijun Hou

Using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly 304 A images obtained from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, we study two jets which occurred during the M5.8 class flare on 2017 April 3 and the M5.5 class flare on 2016 July 23, respectively. During the M5.8 class flare, many vortex-like structures occurred in the upstream and downstream regimes of the associated jet. W

Xingran Zhou, Siyu Huang, Bin Li, Yingming Li

This paper presents a novel method to manipulate the visual appearance (pose and attribute) of a person image according to natural language descriptions. Our method can be boiled down to two stages: 1) text guided pose generation and 2) visual appearance transferred image synthesis. In the first stage, our method infers a reasonable target human pose based o

H. D. Salinas, J. Restrepo, Òscar Iglesias

We investigate the effects of the competition between exchange ($J$) and dipolar ($D$) interactions on the magnetization reversal mechanisms of ferromagnetic nanotubes. Using first atomistic Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for a model with Heisenberg spins on a cylindrical surface, we compute hysteresis loops for a wide range of the $γ=D/J$ parameter, character

Samuel Horváth, Dmitry Kovalev, Konstantin Mishchenko, Sebastian Stich

We consider distributed optimization where the objective function is spread among different devices, each sending incremental model updates to a central server. To alleviate the communication bottleneck, recent work proposed various schemes to compress (e.g.\ quantize or sparsify) the gradients, thereby introducing additional variance $ω\geq 1$ that might sl

S. Kolwa, J. Vernet, C. De Breuck, M. Villar-Martin

We have used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) to study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a z = 2.92 radio galaxy, MRC 0943-242 by parametrising its emitting and absorbing gas. In both Ly$α$ $λ$1216 and He II $λ$1640 lines, we observe emission with velocity shifts of $Δv \simeq-1000$ km s$^{-1}$ from the systemic redshift of the galaxy. These blu

Emanuela Fachini, János Körner

Two permutations of the natural numbers diverge if the absolute value of the difference of their elements in the same position goes to infinity. We show that there exists an infinite number of pairwise divergent permutations of the naturals. We relate this result to more general questions about the permutation capacity of infinite graphs.

Danho Ahn, Ohjoon Kwon, Woohyun Chung, Wonjun Jang

A high Q-factor microwave resonator in a high magnetic field could be of great use in a wide range of fields, from accelerator design to axion dark matter search. The natural choice of material for the superconducting cavity to be placed in a high field is a high temperature superconductor (HTS) with a high critical field. The deposition, however, of a high-

Leonid V. Yasnov, Jan Benáček, Marian Karlický

Fine structures of radio bursts play an important role in diagnostics of the solar flare plasma. Among them the zebras, which are prevalently assumed to be generated by the double plasma resonance instability, belong to the most important. In this paper we compute the growth rate of this instability for two types of the electron distribution: a) for the powe

Vitor Cardoso, Takahisa Igata, Akihiro Ishibashi, Kodai Ueda

We develop a new perturbation method to study the dynamics of massive tensor fields on extremal and near-extremal static black hole spacetimes in arbitrary dimensions. On such backgrounds, one can classify the components of massive tensor fields into the tensor, vector, and scalar-type components. For the tensor-type components, which arise only in higher di

Margrethe Kvale Loe, Håkon Tjelmeland

In recent years, several ensemble-based filtering methods have been proposed and studied. The main challenge in such procedures is the updating of a prior ensemble to a posterior ensemble at every step of the filtering recursions. In the famous ensemble Kalman filter, the assumption of a linear-Gaussian state space model is introduced in order to overcome th

Andreas Bytyn, Rainer Leupers, Gerd Ascheid

In recent years, neural networks have surpassed classical algorithms in areas such as object recognition, e.g. in the well-known ImageNet challenge. As a result, great effort is being put into developing fast and efficient accelerators, especially for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In this work we present ConvAix, a fully C-programmable processor, whi

M. Mahdi Azari, Giovanni Geraci, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Sofie Pollin

Reliable and direct communication between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could facilitate autonomous flight, collision avoidance, and cooperation in UAV swarms. In this paper, we consider UAV-to-UAV (U2U) communications underlaying a cellular network, where UAV transmit-receive pairs share the same spectrum with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUE

Mirza H. K. Rubel, Khandaker Monower Hossain, Anjuman Ara Khatun, M. Anwar Hossain

Numerous physical properties of CaPd3Ti4O12 (CPTO) and CaPd3V4O12 (CPVO) double perovskites have been explored based on density functional theory (DFT). The calculated structural parameters fairly agree with the experimental data to confirm their stability. The mechanical stability of these two compounds was clearly observed by the Born stability criteria. T

Marco Frasca, Giuliano Grossi, Giorgio Valentini

Multitask algorithms typically use task similarity information as a bias to speed up and improve the performance of learning processes. Tasks are learned jointly, sharing information across them, in order to construct models more accurate than those learned separately over single tasks. In this contribution, we present the first multitask model, to our knowl

Chuan Zhang, Holger Podlech, Ulrich Ratzinger, Rudolf Tiede

Taking advantage of the 0° synchronous phase, the KONUS (&#34;Combined 0° Structure&#34; translated from German &#34;Kombinierte Null Grad Struktur&#34;) beam dynamics strategy enables long accelerating sections with lens-free slim drift tubes in the low and medium energy regime. It has successfully realized worldwide many room temperature H-type linacs with

M. N. M. van Lieshout

We investigate the asymptotic mean squared error of kernel estimators of the intensity function of a spatial point process. We show that when $n$ independent copies of a point process in $\mathbb R^d$ are superposed, the optimal bandwidth $h_n$ is of the order $n^{-1/(d+4)}$ under appropriate smoothness conditions on the kernel and true intensity function. W

P. A. Krachkov, A. Di Piazza, A. I. Milstein

The impact of a laser field on the process of photon radiation by an ultra-relativistic electron in an atomic field is investigated. The angular distribution and the spectrum of the radiated photon are derived. By means of the quasiclassical approximation, the obtained results are exact in the parameters of the laser field and the atomic field. It is shown t

Johannes Elschner, Guanghui Hu

The first part of this paper is concerned with the uniqueness to inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering from bounded rigid obstacles in two dimensions. It is proved that a connected polygonal obstacle can be uniquely identified by the far-field pattern over all observation directions corresponding to a single incident plane wave. Our approach is based on a

Ahmed Khalifa

This thesis introduces a novel quadrotor manipulation system that consists of 2-link manipulator attached to the bottom of a quadrotor. This new system presents a solution for the drawbacks found in the current quadrotor manipulation system which uses a gripper fixed to a quadrotor. Unlike the current system, the proposed system has a 6-DOF, and it provides

D. Gagnier, M. Rieutord, C. Charbonnel, G. Putigny

The understanding of the evolution of early-type stars is tightly related to that of the effects of rapid rotation. For massive stars, rapid rotation combines with their strong radiation-driven wind. The aim of this paper is to investigate two questions that are prerequisite to the study of the evolution of massive rapidly rotating stars: (i) What is the cri

A. A. Markov, G. Rohringer, A. N. Rubtsov

Electrons on a two-dimensional (2$d$) lattice which is exposed to a strong uniform magnetic field show intriguing physical phenomena. The spectrum of such systems exhibits a complex (multi-)band structure known as Hofstadter&#39;s butterfly. For fillings at which the system is a band insulator one observes a quantized integer-valued Hall conductivity $σ_{xy}