December 2020 arXiv papers — page 9

Muhammad Danish Roshaidie, William Pang Han Liang, Calvin Goh Kai Jun, Kok Hong Yew

In this research paper of secure software systems, authors have discussed what the proper development process is when it comes to creating a secure software, which will be suited for developers and relevent stakeholders alike. Secure Software Development Process for Developers is of crucial importance for software engineers as more and more software-based de

Yoichi Takeda

A synthetic spectrum-fitting analysis was applied to the Ca II line at 3933.68 A for 122 A-type stars (7000 <Te < 10000 K) in a wide range of rotational velocity (10 < vsini < 300 km/s), in order to study the behaviors of Ca abundances ([Ca/H]39) determined from this Ca II 3934 line, especially in context of (i) how they are related with the Am phenomenon (o

Andrew Collins, Laura Tierney, Joeran Beel

Recommendation algorithms perform differently if the users, recommendation contexts, applications, and user interfaces vary even slightly. It is similarly observed in other fields, such as combinatorial problem solving, that algorithms perform differently for each instance presented. In those fields, meta-learning is successfully used to predict an optimal a

Zhongli Li, Qingyu Zhou, Chao Li, Ke Xu

Pre-trained Transformer-based neural language models, such as BERT, have achieved remarkable results on varieties of NLP tasks. Recent works have shown that attention-based models can benefit from more focused attention over local regions. Most of them restrict the attention scope within a linear span, or confine to certain tasks such as machine translation

Xabier Prado, José Manuel Domínguez, Iván Area, José Edelstein

This work analyzes the difficulties in learning and teaching Einstein's theory of special relativity. An extensive bibliographic review has been performed, considering articles published in the most relevant journals on science education, which were selected taking into account the following impact factors: JCR, SJR, IN-RECS and ICDS. The typical thinking of

J. L. Figueiredo, J. P. S. Bizarro, H. Terças

We derive a quantum kinetic model describing the dynamics of graphene electrons in phase space based on the Wigner--Weyl formalism. To take into account the quantum nature of the carriers, we make use of the quantum Liouville equation for the density matrix. By relating the density matrix elements with the Wigner function, the equation of motion for the latt

Quentin Richard, Marc Choisy, Thierry Lefèvre, Ramsès Djidjou-Demasse

In contrast to the many theoretical studies on the transmission of human-mosquitoes malaria infection, few studies have considered a multiple structure model formulations including (i) the chronological age of humans and mosquitoes population, (ii) the time since humans and mosquitoes are infected and (iii) humans waning immunity (i.e., the progressive loss

Kazumune Hashimoto, Yuga Onoue, Masaki Ogura, Toshimitsu Ushio

In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing event-triggered controllers for containing epidemic processes in complex networks. We focus on a deterministic susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model, which is one of the well-known, fundamental models that capture the epidemic spreading. The event-triggered control is particularly formulated in th

Alizée Dubois, Daniel Bonamy

We examine theoretically and numerically fast propagation of a tensile crack along unidimensional strips with periodically evolving toughness. In such dynamic fracture regimes, crack front waves form and transport front disturbances along the crack edge at speed less than the Rayleigh wave speed and depending on the crack speed. In this configuration, standi

Edouard Ribes

Labor displacement off-or nearshore is a performance improvement instrument that currently sparks a lot of interest in the service sector. This article proposes a model to understand the consequences of such a decision on management consulting firms. Its calibration on the market of consulting services for the German transportation industry highlights that,

Maria Letizia Raffa, Vu-Hieu Nguyen, Philippe Hernigou, Charles-Henri Flouzat- Lachaniette

Short and long-term stabilities of cementless implants are strongly determined by the interfacial load transfer between implants and bone tissue. Stress-shielding effects arise from shear stresses due to the difference of material properties between bone and the implant. It remains difficult to measure the stress field in periprosthetic bone tissue. This stu

Zoran Cenev, P. A. Diluka Harischandra, Seppo Nurmi, Mika Latikka

Manipulation of small-scale matter is a fundamental topic in micro- and nanorobotics. Numerous magnetic robotic systems have been developed for the manipulation of microparticles in an ambient environment, liquid as well as on the air-liquid interface. These systems move intrinsically magnetic or magnetically tagged objects by inducing a magnetic torque or f

Peter Frankl, Erica L. L. Liu, Jian Wang

For a $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$, the clique number of $\mathcal{F}$ is defined to be the maximum size of a subset $Q$ of $[n]$ with $\binom{Q}{k}\subset \mathcal{F}$. In the present paper, we determine the maximum number of edges in a $k$-graph on $[n]$ with matching number at most $s$ and clique number at least $q$ for $n\geq 8k^2s$ and

Alex Abreu, Marco Pacini, Danny Taboada

We study a compactification of the moduli space of theta characteristics, giving a modular interpretation of the geometric points and describing the boundary stratification. This space is different from the moduli space of spin curves. The modular description and the boundary stratification of the new compactification are encoded by a tropical moduli space.

H. Gu1, F. Tang, Y. -R. Ruan, J. -M. Zhang

Rare-earth monopnictides are predicted to be nontrivial semimetal candidates and show pressure-induced superconductivity. Here, we grow LuBi single crystal and study the magnetization, transport behaviors and electronic band structures to reveal its topological semimetal feature and superconductivity under pressure. At 0 GPa, the quantum oscillations indicat

Kadir Ocalan

This paper presents a phenomenological study for the differential cross section of the forward Z boson production in leptonic decay channels as a function of the angular variable $\phi^{*}_{\eta}$ in proton-proton collisions. The $\phi^{*}_{\eta}$ distribution is predicted for the forward pseudorapidity region $2.0 < \eta_{l} < 4.5$ of the decay leptons at c

Guangjing Song, Weiyang Ding, Michael K. Ng

Quaternion matrices are employed successfully in many color image processing applications. In particular, a pure quaternion matrix can be used to represent red, green and blue channels of color images. A low-rank approximation for a pure quaternion matrix can be obtained by using the quaternion singular value decomposition. However, this approximation is not

Avnish, Kirtiman Ghosh, Tapoja Jha, Saurabh Niyogi

Universal Extra Dimension (UED) is a well-motivated and well-studied scenario. One of the main motivations is the presence of a dark matter (DM) candidate namely, the lightest level-1 Kaluza-Klein (KK) particle (LKP), in the particle spectrum of UED. The minimal version of UED (mUED) scenario is highly predictive with only two parameters namely, the radius o

Jun Ma, Ziwei Nie

Automated segmentation of aneurysms from 3D CT is important for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment planning of the cerebral aneurysm disease. This short paper briefly presents the main technique details of the aneurysm segmentation method in the MICCAI 2020 CADA challenge. The main contribution is that we configure the 3D U-Net with a large patch size,

Denys Dutykh, Jean-Louis Verger-Gaugry

For $\beta > 1$ a real algebraic integer ({\it the base}), the finite alphabets $\mathcal{A} \subset \mathbb{Z}$ which realize the identity $\mathbb{Q}(\beta) = {\rm Per}_{\mathcal{A}}(\beta)$, where ${\rm Per}_{\mathcal{A}}(\beta)$ is the set of complex numbers which are $(\beta, \mathcal{A})$-eventually periodic representations, are investigated. Comparing

V. E. Valiulin, A. V. Mikheyenkov, N. M. Chtchelkatchev, K. I. Kugel

Using the exact diagonalization technique, we determine the energy spectrum and wave functions for finite chains described by the two-spin (Kugel--Khomskii) model with different types of intersubsystem exchange terms. The found solutions provide a possibility to address the problem of quantum entanglement inherent to this class of models. We put the main emp

Min Wang, Qiumei Huang, Cheng Wang

In this paper we propose and analyze a second order accurate (in time) numerical scheme for the square phase field crystal (SPFC) equation, a gradient flow modeling crystal dynamics at the atomic scale in space but on diffusive scales in time. Its primary difference with the standard phase field crystal model is an introduction of the 4-Laplacian term in the

Yoonseok Hwang, Jun-Won Rhim, Bohm-Jung Yang

According to the Onsager's semiclassical quantization rule, the Landau levels of a band are bounded by its upper and lower band edges at zero magnetic field. However, there are two notable systems where the Landau level spectra violate this expectation, including topological bands and flat bands with singular band crossings, whose wave functions possess some

Zhide Lu, Pei-Xin Shen, Dong-Ling Deng

Neuroevolution, a field that draws inspiration from the evolution of brains in nature, harnesses evolutionary algorithms to construct artificial neural networks. It bears a number of intriguing capabilities that are typically inaccessible to gradient-based approaches, including optimizing neural-network architectures, hyperparameters, and even learning the t

Addison J. Hu, Mikael Kuusela, Ann B. Lee, Donata Giglio

Tropical cyclones (TCs), driven by heat exchange between the air and sea, pose a substantial risk to many communities around the world. Accurate characterization of the subsurface ocean thermal response to TC passage is crucial for accurate TC intensity forecasts and for an understanding of the role that TCs play in the global climate system. However, that c

Wuli Miao, Moran Wang

Understanding of the energy exchange between electrons and phonons in metals is important for micro- and nano-manufacturing and system design. The electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling constant is to describe such exchange strength, yet its variation remains still unclear at micro- and nanoscale where the non-equilibrium effects are significant. In this work, an e

Zhikun Zhang, Tianhao Wang, Ninghui Li, Jean Honorio

In differential privacy (DP), a challenging problem is to generate synthetic datasets that efficiently capture the useful information in the private data. The synthetic dataset enables any task to be done without privacy concern and modification to existing algorithms. In this paper, we present PrivSyn, the first automatic synthetic data generation method th

Chaoning Zhang, Adil Karjauv, Philipp Benz, In So Kweon

Data hiding is one widely used approach for protecting authentication and ownership. Most multimedia content like images and videos are transmitted or saved in the compressed form. This kind of lossy compression, such as JPEG, can destroy the hidden data, which raises the need of robust data hiding. It is still an open challenge to achieve the goal of data h

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues, James Cross, Francisco Guzmán

Multilingual neural machine translation has shown the capability of directly translating between language pairs unseen in training, i.e. zero-shot translation. Despite being conceptually attractive, it often suffers from low output quality. The difficulty of generalizing to new translation directions suggests the model representations are highly specific to

Cameron Browne

Games potentially provide a wealth of knowledge about our shared cultural past and the development of human civilisation, but our understanding of early games is incomplete and often based on unreliable reconstructions. This paper describes the Digital Ludeme Project, a five-year research project currently underway that aims to address such issues using mode

Petr Stepanov, Ming Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe

The discovery of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has unveiled a rich variety of superconducting, magnetic and topologically nontrivial phases. The existence of all these phases in one material, and their tunability, has opened new pathways for the creation of unusual gate tunable junctions. However, the required conditions for their creation - g

S Maiti

The Erd\H{o}s-Straus conjecture is a renowned problem which describes that for every natural number $n~(\ge 2)$, $\frac{4}{n}$ can be represented as the sum of three unit fractions. The main purpose of this study is to show that the Erd\H{o}s-Straus conjecture is true. The study also re-demonstrates Mordell theorem which states that $\frac{4}{n}$ has a expre

Tao Zhang, Zhiqiang Chen, Hao Zhou, N. Robert Bennett

X-ray scatter remains a major physics challenge in volumetric computed tomography (CT), whose physical and statistical behaviors have been commonly leveraged in order to eliminate its impact on CT image quality. In this work, we conduct an in-depth derivation of how the scatter distribution and scatter to primary ratio (SPR) will change during the spectral c

Yongri Piao, Zhengkun Rong, Shuang Xu, Miao Zhang

Light field data exhibit favorable characteristics conducive to saliency detection. The success of learning-based light field saliency detection is heavily dependent on how a comprehensive dataset can be constructed for higher generalizability of models, how high dimensional light field data can be effectively exploited, and how a flexible model can be desig

Che-Chi Shih, Ming-Huei Huang, Pang-Chia Chang, Po-Wei Yu

A tungsten filament immersed in superfluid helium has strong hysteretic $I$-$V$ characteristics. By increasing the applied voltage, a remarkable current drop occurs at a transition voltage, at which the filament enters a non-ohmic hot state and becomes covered with a helium gas sheath. The return to an ohmic state occurs at a lower voltage because of the poo

Yoonseok Hwang, Junseo Jung, Jun-Won Rhim, Bohm-Jung Yang

Geometry of the wave function is a central pillar of modern solid state physics. In this work, we unveil the wave-function geometry of two-dimensional semimetals with band crossing points (BCPs). We show that the Berry phase of BCPs are governed by the quantum metric describing the infinitesimal distance between quantum states. For generic linear BCPs, we sh

P. Adamopoulou, S. Konstantinou-Rizos, G. Papamikos

We study certain extensions of the Adler map on Grassmann algebras $\Gamma(n)$ of order $n$. We consider a known Grassmann-extended Adler map, and assuming that $n=1$ we obtain a commutative extension of Adler's map in six dimensions. We show that the map satisfies the Yang--Baxter equation, admits three invariants and is Liouville integrable. We solve the m

Boyan T. Torosov, Bruce W. Shore, Nikolay V. Vitanov

We evaluate various sources of errors that occur when attempting to produce a specified coherent change of a two-state quantum system using six popular coherent control techniques: resonant excitation, adiabatic following, composite adiabatic passage, universal composite pulses, shortcut to adiabaticity, and single-shot shaped pulses. As error sources we con

Maximilian Beyer, Jack C. Roth, Eustace Edwards, David DeMille

A compact frequency-doubled diode-pumped Nd:YAG master-oscillator power-amplifier laser system with programmable microsecond pulse length has been developed. Analog pulse shaping of the output from a single-frequency continuous-wave Nd:YAG oscillator, and subsequent amplification, allowed the generation of rectangular pulses with pulse lengths on the order o

Jonas Kölzer, Kristof Moors, Abur R. Jalil, Erik Zimmermann

Topological surface states of three-dimensional topological insulator nanoribbons and their distinct magnetoconductance properties are promising for topoelectronic applications and topological quantum computation. A crucial building block for nanoribbon-based circuits are three-terminal junctions. While the transport of topological surface states on a planar

Bojan Arbutina, Vladimir Zeković

Prescriptions for electron injection into the diffusive shock acceleration process are required in many practical considerations of cosmic-ray astrophysics, particularly in modeling of the synchrotron emission of astrophysical sources. In particle-in-cell simulations of quasi-parallel magnetized collisionless shocks, we analyse the evolution of particle spec

William Arild Dahl, Laszlo Erdodi, Fabio Massimo Zennaro

Detecting vulnerabilities in software is a critical challenge in the development and deployment of applications. One of the most known and dangerous vulnerabilities is stack-based buffer overflows, which may allow potential attackers to execute malicious code. In this paper we consider the use of modern machine learning models, specifically recurrent neural

Michael Schlichtkrull, Vladimir Karpukhin, Barlas Oğuz, Mike Lewis

Structured information is an important knowledge source for automatic verification of factual claims. Nevertheless, the majority of existing research into this task has focused on textual data, and the few recent inquiries into structured data have been for the closed-domain setting where appropriate evidence for each claim is assumed to have already been re

Yongjun Lee, Anshuman Kumar, Johnathas D'arf Severo Forte, Andrey Chaves

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (1L-TMDs) have tremendous potential as atomically thin, direct bandgap semiconductors that can be used as convenient building blocks for quantum photonic devices. However, the short exciton lifetime due to the defect traps and the strong exciton-exciton interaction in TMDs has significantly limited the efficiency of

Wei Chao, Xiu-Fei Li, Lei Wang

If dark matter (DM) acquires mass during a first order phase transition, there will be a filtering-out effect when DM enters the expanding bubble. In this paper we study the filtering-out effect for a pseudo-scalar DM, whose mass may partially come from a first order phase transition in the hidden sector. We calculate the ratio of DM that may enter the bubbl

Juhi Kulshrestha, Marcos Oliveira, Orkut Karacalik, Denis Bonnay

Understanding human activities and movements on the Web is not only important for computational social scientists but can also offer valuable guidance for the design of online systems for recommendations, caching, advertising, and personalization. In this work, we demonstrate that people tend to follow routines on the Web, and these repetitive patterns of we

Maurice J. Dupré

We give a justification for generalizing the notion of the energy momentum stress tensor in general relativity which results in the Jacobi curvature tensor being the embodiment of total energy momentum stress including gravity in general relativity.

Mario Geiger, Leonardo Petrini, Matthieu Wyart

Deep learning algorithms are responsible for a technological revolution in a variety of tasks including image recognition or Go playing. Yet, why they work is not understood. Ultimately, they manage to classify data lying in high dimension -- a feat generically impossible due to the geometry of high dimensional space and the associated curse of dimensionalit

R. S. Akzyanov

We study the spin conductivity of the bulk states of three-dimensional topological insulators within Kubo formalism. Spin Hall effect is the generation of the spin current that is perpendicular to the applied voltage. In the case of a three-dimensional topological insulator, applied voltage along $x$ direction generates transverse spin currents along $y$ and

B. Ananthanarayan, Sumit Banik, Samuel Friot, Shayan Ghosh

Mellin-Barnes (MB) integrals are well-known objects appearing in many branches of mathematics and physics, ranging from hypergeometric functions theory to quantum field theory, solid state physics, asymptotic theory, etc. Although MB integrals have been studied for more than one century, until now there is no systematic computational technique of the multipl

P. Yu. Artemchuk, O. V. Prokopenko, E. N. Bankowski, T. J. Meitzler

We demonstrate theoretically that in a spintronic diode (SD), having a free magnetic layer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the first and second order and no external bias magnetic field, the out-of-plane regime of magnetization precession can be excited by sufficiently large (exceeding a certain threshold) RF signals with the frequencies <~250 MHz.

Pascal Grange

The model of binary aggregation with constant kernel is subjected to stochastic resetting: aggregates of any size explode into monomers at independent stochastic times. These resetting times are Poisson distributed, and the rate of the process is called the resetting rate. The master equation yields a Bernoulli-type equation in the generating function of the

Vladimir Karas, Kostas Sapountzis, Agnieszka Janiuk

Black holes attract gaseous material from the surrounding environment. Cosmic plasma is largely ionized and magnetized because of electric currents flowing in the highly conductive environment near black holes; the process of accretion then carries the magnetic flux onto the event horizon, $r\simeq R_+$. On the other hand, magnetic pressure acts against accr

Wei He, Naoto Yokoya, Xin Yuan

Coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging (CASSI) is a promising technique to capture the three-dimensional hyperspectral image (HSI) using a single coded two-dimensional (2D) measurement, in which algorithms are used to perform the inverse problem. Due to the ill-posed nature, various regularizers have been exploited to reconstruct the 3D data from the 2D me

Giorgio Visani, Federico Chesani, Enrico Bagli, Davide Capuzzo

In the global economy, credit companies play a central role in economic development, through their activity as money lenders. This important task comes with some drawbacks, mainly the risk of the debtors not being able to repay the provided credit. Therefore, Credit Risk Modelling (CRM), namely the evaluation of the probability that a debtor will not repay t

Adamu Issifu, Julio C. M. Rocha, Francisco A. Brito

We study a phenomenological model that mimics the characteristics of QCD theory at finite temperature. The model involves fermions coupled with a modified Abelian gauge field in a tachyon matter. It reproduces some important QCD features such as, confinement, deconfinement, chiral symmetry and quark-gluon-plasma (QGP) phase transitions. The study may shed li

Joydip Sengupta, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

The rapid outbreaks of lethal viruses necessitate the development of novel antiviral substance. Besides the conventional antiviral substances, biocompatible nanomaterials also have significant potential in combating the virus at various stages of infection. Carbon nanomaterials have an impressive record against viruses and can deal with many crucial healthca

Carl Feghali, Robert Šámal

We strengthen a result of Dross, Montassier and Pinlou (2017) that the vertex set of every triangle-free planar graph can be decomposed into a set that induces a forest and a set that induces a forest with maximum degree at most $5$, showing that $5$ can be replaced by $3$.

Mirko Pittaluga, Mariella Minder, Marco Lucamarini, Mirko Sanzaro

Twin-field (TF) quantum key distribution (QKD) fundamentally alters the rate-distance relationship of QKD, offering the scaling of a single-node quantum repeater. Although recent experiments have demonstrated the new opportunities for secure long-distance communications allowed by TF-QKD, formidable challenges remain to unlock its true potential. Previous de

Marcos V. Moro, Sigurbjörn M. Aðalsteinsson, Tuan. T. Tran, Dmitrii Moldarev

Photochromic oxygen$-$containing yttrium$-$hydride thin films are synthesized by argon$-$magnetron sputtering on microscope slides. Some of them are encapsulated with a thin, transparent and non$-$photochromic diffusion-barrier layer of either Al2O3 or Si3N4. Ion beam-based methods prove that these protective diffusion barriers are stable and free from pinho

Polina Ovsiannikova, Igor Buzhinsky, Antti Pakonen, Valeriy Vyatkin

Despite being one of the most reliable approaches for ensuring system correctness, model checking requires auxiliary tools to fully avail. In this work, we tackle the issue of its results being hard to interpret and present Oeritte, a tool for automatic visual counterexample explanation for function block diagrams. To learn what went wrong, the user can insp

Xavier Forestier, Jarosław Cimek, Ireneusz Kujawa, Rafał Kasztelanic

Glasses based on SiO2-PbO-CdO-Ga2O3 system have been studied for the first time for fabrication of mid-infrared optical elements. Gallium oxide concentration was gradually increased, replacing silicon dioxide, for different cadmium and lead oxide content. The thermal and optical properties were investigated for different compositions. It was observed that th

Munachiso Nwadike, Takumi Miyawaki, Esha Sarkar, Michail Maniatakos

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which could be easily introduced to the training set prior to model training. Recent work has focused on investigating backdoor attacks on natural images or toy datasets. Consequently, the exact impact of backdoors is not yet fully understood in complex real-world applications, such a

Tor Ole B. Odden

What does it mean to "make sense" of physics? It's not a simple question. Most people have an intuitive feeling for when things do (or do not) make sense to them. But, putting this feeling into words--especially actionable words--is another task entirely.

Miguel Núñez-Peiró, Carmen Sanchez-Guevara Sanchez, F. Javier Neila Gonzalez

Field measurement campaigns have grown exponentially in recent years, stemming from the need for reliable data to validate urban climate models and obtain a better understanding of urban climate features. Also contributing to this growth is the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) scheme, firstly developed to enhance the accuracy in the contextualisation of urban measur

Xiangliang Kong, Xin Wang, Gennnian Ge

As an important coding scheme in modern distributed storage systems, locally repairable codes (LRCs) have attracted a lot of attentions from perspectives of both practical applications and theoretical research. As a major topic in the research of LRCs, bounds and constructions of the corresponding optimal codes are of particular concerns. In this work, codes

Ludwig A. Hothorn

Dose groups are compared with a control assuming an order restriction usually by the Williams trend test. Here, as an alternative, two variants of the closed testing procedure are considered, one where global Williams tests are used in the partition hypotheses, and another where pairwise contrast tests are used for this purpose. Related R software is provide

M. M. Altakach, T. Ježo, M. Klasen, J. -N. Lang

We report on our re-calculation of electroweak top-quark pair production in Standard Model extensions with extra heavy neutral and charged spin-1 particles at the LHC with substantial improvements. In particular, we allow for flavour--non-diagonal $Z'$ couplings and take into account non-resonant production in the Standard Model and beyond. As in our previou

Mohammad R. Garousi

Recently, imposing the gauge-symmetry and the T-duality constraints on the string frame effective actions of type II superstring theories, the NS-NS cuplings have been found in a particular scheme which has 445 couplings in 15 different structures. In this paper, using a field redefinition, we write them in terms of 251 couplings which appear in 9 different

Juerg Kohlas, Juerg Schmid

Information algebras arise from the idea that information comes in pieces which can be aggregated or combined into new pieces, that information refers to questions and that from any piece of information, the part relevant to a given question can be extracted. This leads to a certain type of algebraic structures, basically semilattices endowed with with addit

Yuhan Li, Tianyao Huang, Xingyu Xu, Yimin Liu

FAR has improved anti-jamming performance over traditional pulse-Doppler radars under complex electromagnetic circumstances. To reconstruct the range-Doppler information in FAR, many compressed sensing (CS) methods including standard and block sparse recovery have been applied. In this paper, we study phase transitions of range-Doppler recovery in FAR using

K. Knowles, D. S. Pillay, S. Amodeo, A. J. Baker

The MeerKAT Exploration of Relics, Giant Halos, and Extragalactic Radio Sources (MERGHERS) survey is a planned project to study a large statistical sample of galaxy clusters with the MeerKAT observatory. Here we present the results of a 16--hour pilot project, observed in response to the 2019 MeerKAT Shared Risk proposal call, to test the feasibility of usin

Matan Yah Ben Zion, Alvin Modin, Yaelin Caba, Paul M Chaikin

Cooperation is vital for the survival of a swarm$^1$. Large scale cooperation allows murmuring starlings to outmaneuver preying falcons$^2$, shoaling sardines to outsmart sea lions$^3$, and homo sapiens to outlive their Pleistocene peers$^4$. On the micron-scale, bacterial colonies show excellent resilience thanks to the individuals' ability to cooperate eve

Zhuosheng Zhang, Haojie Yu, Hai Zhao, Rui Wang

Word representation is a fundamental component in neural language understanding models. Recently, pre-trained language models (PrLMs) offer a new performant method of contextualized word representations by leveraging the sequence-level context for modeling. Although the PrLMs generally give more accurate contextualized word representations than non-contextua

Ying Jin, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang

We study offline reinforcement learning (RL), which aims to learn an optimal policy based on a dataset collected a priori. Due to the lack of further interactions with the environment, offline RL suffers from the insufficient coverage of the dataset, which eludes most existing theoretical analysis. In this paper, we propose a pessimistic variant of the value

W. -J. Lin, Y. Lu, P. Y. Wen, Y. -T. Cheng

Loading quantum information deterministically onto a quantum node is an important step towards a quantum network. Here, we demonstrate that coherent-state microwave photons, with an optimal temporal waveform, can be efficiently loaded onto a single superconducting artificial atom in a semi-infinite one-dimensional (1D) transmission-line waveguide. Using a we

I. De Boeck

In this article we discuss problem HI 028 of the Hirotaka files, a collection of sangakuproblems created by Hirotaka Ebisui.

Oleg Lunin, Jia Tian

We consider dynamics of scalar and vector fields on gravitational backgrounds of the Wess-Zumino-Witten models. For SO(4) and its cosets, we demonstrate full separation of variables for all fields and find a close analogy with a similar separation of vector equations in the backgrounds of the Myers--Perry black holes. For SO(5) and higher groups separation o

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

A search for astrophysical point-like neutrino sources using the data collected by the ANTARES detector between January 29, 2007 and December 31, 2017 is presented. A likelihood stacking method is used to assess the significance of an excess of muon neutrinos inducing track-like events in correlation with the location of a list of possible sources. Different

Mingqi Yuan, Qi Cao, Man-on Pun, Yi Chen

In this work, we develop practical user scheduling algorithms for downlink bursty traffic with emphasis on user fairness. In contrast to the conventional scheduling algorithms that either equally divides the transmission time slots among users or maximizing some ratios without physcial meanings, we propose to use the 5%-tile user data rate (5TUDR) as the met

Yuri Gil Dantas, Vivek Nigam, Harald Ruess

The ISO 21434 is a new standard that has been proposed to address the future challenges of automotive cybersecurity. This white paper takes a closer look at the ISO 21434 helping engineers to understand the ISO 21434 parts, the key activities to be carried out and the main artefacts that shall be produced. As any certification, obtaining the ISO 21434 certif

Wazir Ali, Jay Kumar, Saifullah Tumrani, Redhwan Nour

Sindhi word segmentation is a challenging task due to space omission and insertion issues. The Sindhi language itself adds to this complexity. It's cursive and consists of characters with inherent joining and non-joining properties, independent of word boundaries. Existing Sindhi word segmentation methods rely on designing and combining hand-crafted features

Anna Denkowska, Stanisław Wanat

The enlargement of the European Union to new countries in 2004 launched mechanisms supporting the development of various social and economic areas, as well as levelling the differences between the Community members in these areas. This article focuses on the insurance sector. Its main purpose is to analyze the development and similarity of the insurance mark

Enkhtogtokh Togootogtokh, Christian Klasen

One of the successful early implementation of deep learning AI technology was on letter recognition. With the recent breakthrough of artificial intelligence (AI) brings more solid technology for complex problems like handwritten letter recognition and even automatic generation of them. In this research, we proposed deep learning framework called Ludwig AI Fr

Robert Goldblatt

Ken Pledger devised a one-sorted approach to the incidence relation of plane geometries, using structures that also support models of propositional modal logic. He introduced a modal system 12g that is valid in one-sorted projective planes, proved that it has finitely many non-equivalent modalities, and identified all possible modality patterns of its extens

Lisa Randolph, Mohammadreza Banjafar, Thomas R. Preston, Toshinori Yabuuchi

Observing ultrafast laser-induced structural changes in nanoscale systems is essential for understanding the dynamics of intense light-matter interactions. For laser intensities on the order of $10^{14} \, \rm W/cm^2$, highly-collisional plasmas are generated at and below the surface. Subsequent transport processes such as heat conduction, electron-ion therm

Ana Valeria Gonzalez, Gagan Bansal, Angela Fan, Robin Jia

While research on explaining predictions of open-domain QA systems (ODQA) to users is gaining momentum, most works have failed to evaluate the extent to which explanations improve user trust. While few works evaluate explanations using user studies, they employ settings that may deviate from the end-user's usage in-the-wild: ODQA is most ubiquitous in voice-

Jun Hua, Hsiang-nan Li, Cai-Dian Lu, Wei Wang

Based on the flavor structure of four-quark effective operators, we develop an automatic computation program to calculate hadronic two-body $B$ meson decay amplitudes, and apply it to their global analysis in the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach. Fitting the PQCD factorization formulas for $B\to PP,VP$ decays at leading order in the strong coupling $\alpha_s

Dayoon Park

In this paper, we show that for any $m$-gonal form $F_m(\mathbf x)$ with $m \ge 12$ which represents every positive integer up to $m-4$, by putting together only unary $m$-gonal form, we may complete an universal form.

Peixuan Li, Shun Su, Huaici Zhao

Although the recent image-based 3D object detection methods using Pseudo-LiDAR representation have shown great capabilities, a notable gap in efficiency and accuracy still exist compared with LiDAR-based methods. Besides, over-reliance on the stand-alone depth estimator, requiring a large number of pixel-wise annotations in the training stage and more comput

Gong Chen, Qingtang Su

The well-known Stokes waves refer to periodic traveling waves under the gravity at the free surface of a two dimensional full water wave system. In this paper, we prove that small-amplitude Stokes waves with infinite depth are nonlinearly unstable under long-wave perturbations. Our approach is based on the modulational approximation of the water wave system

Rongzhou Bao, Jiayi Wang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao

For both human readers and pre-trained language models (PrLMs), lexical diversity may lead to confusion and inaccuracy when understanding the underlying semantic meanings of given sentences. By substituting complex words with simple alternatives, lexical simplification (LS) is a recognized method to reduce such lexical diversity, and therefore to improve the

Manjit Singh

An eighth-order equation in (3+1)-dimension is studied for its integrability. Its symmetry group is shown to be infinite-dimensional and is checked for Virasoro like structure. The equation is shown not to have Painlev$\acute{\rm e}$ property. One and two-dimensional classifications of infinite-dimensional symmetry algebra is also given.

Junyang Tan, Shisheng Li, Bilu Liu1, Hui-Ming Cheng

Two-dimensional (2D) materials family with its many members and different properties has recently drawn great attention. Thanks to their atomic thickness and smooth surface, 2D materials can be constructed into heterostructures or homostructures in the fashion of out-of-plane perpendicular stacking or in-plane lateral stitching, resulting in unexpected physi

Junru Li, Meng Wang, Li Zhang, Shiqi Wang

Cross-component linear model (CCLM) prediction has been repeatedly proven to be effective in reducing the inter-channel redundancies in video compression. Essentially speaking, the linear model is identically trained by employing accessible luma and chroma reference samples at both encoder and decoder, elevating the level of operational complexity due to the

Byeong Moon Kim, Dayoon Park

In this article, we consider the rank of universal $m$-gonal forms for all sufficiently large $m$. Especially, we determine the minimal rank of universal $m$-gonal form and the maximal rank of kinds of proper universal $m$-gonal form.

Dayoon Park

In this paper, we classify the $(a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5)$ for which the universality of an $m$-gonal form $F_m(\mathbf x)$ having its first five coefficients as $(a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5)$ is characterized as the representability of positive integers up to $m-4$ and see its applications.

Andrei Zakharov, Kinjal Dasbiswas

Morphogenetic dynamics of tissue sheets require coordinated cell shape changes regulated by global patterning of mechanical forces. Inspired by such biological phenomena, we propose a minimal mechanochemical model based on the notion that cell shape changes are induced by diffusible biomolecules that influence tissue contractility in a concentration-dependen

Antik Sihi, Sudhir K. Pandey

We present a comparative electronic structure study using DFT and various beyond-DFT (DFT+$U$, $G_0W_0$, DFT+DMFT) methods for ferromagnetic Iron (Fe) to find better approach for describing the spectral properties of correlated magnetic system. The computed value of $U$ ($W$) is $\sim$5.4 ($\sim$0.8) eV. The calculated spectra of all methods are providing go

Jeewan C. Pandey, Gurpreet Singh, Subhajeet Karmakar, Arti Joshi

We present the first detailed X-ray study and simultaneous optical observations of the active fast rotating star FR Cnc. The X-ray spectra are found to be explained by two-temperature plasma model with temperature of cool and hot components of 0.34 and 1.1 keV, respectively. The X-ray light curve in the 0.5 -- 2.0 keV energy band is found to be rotationally