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    Real-time spectral modelling of audio for creative sound transformation

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    A non-linear Reduced Order Methodology applicable to Boiling Water Reactor Stability Analysis

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    Das Stabilitätsverhalten von SWRen ist geprägt durch die thermohydraulische Kopplung zwischen Leistung, Massenstrom, Dichteverteilung und die neutronenphysikalische Rückkopplung. In dieser Arbeit wird erstmalig eine systematische, automatisierte und in sich geschlossene modellordnungsreduzierende Methodik entwickelt, welche allgemein auf verschiedenste dynamische Probleme und im Speziellen auf SWRen anwendbar ist. Dieses Vorgehen ermöglicht umfassende Analysen des nichtlinearen Verhaltens

    Cosmic cartography

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    The cosmic origin and evolution is encoded in the large-scale matter distribution observed in astronomical surveys. Galaxy redshift surveys have become in the recent years one of the best probes for cosmic large-scale structures. They are complementary to other information sources like the cosmic microwave background, since they trace a different epoch of the Universe, the time after reionization at which the Universe became transparent, covering about the last twelve billion years. Regarding that the Universe is about thirteen billion years old, galaxy surveys cover a huge range of time, even if the sensitivity limitations of the detectors do not permit to reach the furthermost sources in the transparent Universe. This makes galaxy surveys extremely interesting for cosmological evolution studies. The observables, galaxy position in the sky, galaxy ma gnitude and redshift, however, give an incomplete representation of the real structures in the Universe, not only due to the limitations and uncertainties in the measurements, but also due to their biased nature. They trace the underlying continuous dark matter field only partially being a discrete sample of the luminous baryonic distribution. In addition, galaxy catalogues are plagued by many complications. Some have a physical foundation, as mentioned before, others are due to the observation process. The problem of reconstructing the underlying density field, which permits to make cosmological studies, thus requires a statistical approach. This thesis describes a cosmic cartography project. The necessary concepts, mathematical frame-work, and numerical algorithms are thoroughly analyzed. On that basis a Bayesian software tool is implemented. The resulting Argo-code allows to investigate the characteristics of the large-scale cosmological structure with unprecedented accuracy and flexibility. This is achieved by jointly estimating the large-scale density along with a variety of other parameters ---such as the cosmic flow, the small-scale peculiar velocity field, and the power-spectrum--- from the information provided by galaxy redshift surveys. Furthermore, Argo is capable of dealing with many observational issues like mask-effects, galaxy selection criteria, blurring and noise in a very efficient implementation of an operator based formalism which was carefully derived for this purpose. Thanks to the achieved high efficiency of Argo the application of iterative sampling algorithms based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo is now possible. This will ultimately lead to a full description of the matter distribution with all its relevant parameters like velocities, power spectra, galaxy bias, etc., including the associated uncertainties. Some applications are shown, in which such techniques are used. A rejection sampling scheme is successfully applied to correct for the observational redshift-distortions effect which is especially severe in regimes of non-linear structure formation, causing the so-called finger-of-god effect. Also a Gibbs-sampling algorithm for power-spectrum determination is presented and some preliminary results are shown in which the correct level and shape of the power-spectrum is recovered solely from the data. We present in an additional appendix the gravitational collapse and subsequent neutrino-driven explosion of the low-mass end of stars that undergo core-collapse Supernovae. We obtain results which are for the first time compatible with the Crab Nebula

    Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995)

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    The files on this record represent the various databases that originally composed the CD-ROM issue of "Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding" database, which is now part of the Dudley Knox Library's Abstracts and Selected Full Text Documents on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995) Collection. (See Calhoun record https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/57364 for further information on this collection and the bibliography). Due to issues of technological obsolescence preventing current and future audiences from accessing the bibliography, DKL exported and converted into the three files on this record the various databases contained in the CD-ROM. The contents of these files are: 1) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_xls.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.xls: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format; RDFA_Glossary.xls: Glossary of terms, in Excel 97-2003 Workbookformat; RDFA_Biographies.xls: Biographies of leading figures, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format]; 2) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_csv.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.TXT: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in CSV format; RDFA_Glossary.TXT: Glossary of terms, in CSV format; RDFA_Biographies.TXT: Biographies of leading figures, in CSV format]; 3) RDFA_CompleteBibliography.pdf: A human readable display of the bibliographic data, as a means of double-checking any possible deviations due to conversion

    Software for Exascale Computing - SPPEXA 2016-2019

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    This open access book summarizes the research done and results obtained in the second funding phase of the Priority Program 1648 "Software for Exascale Computing" (SPPEXA) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) presented at the SPPEXA Symposium in Dresden during October 21-23, 2019. In that respect, it both represents a continuation of Vol. 113 in Springer’s series Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, the corresponding report of SPPEXA’s first funding phase, and provides an overview of SPPEXA’s contributions towards exascale computing in today's sumpercomputer technology. The individual chapters address one or more of the research directions (1) computational algorithms, (2) system software, (3) application software, (4) data management and exploration, (5) programming, and (6) software tools. The book has an interdisciplinary appeal: scholars from computational sub-fields in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering will find it of particular interest

    24th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases

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    In the last three decades information modelling and knowledge bases have become essentially important subjects not only in academic communities related to information systems and computer science but also in the business area where information technology is applied. The series of European – Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC) originally started as a co-operation initiative between Japan and Finland in 1982. The practical operations were then organised by professor Ohsuga in Japan and professors Hannu Kangassalo and Hannu Jaakkola in Finland (Nordic countries). Geographical scope has expanded to cover Europe and also other countries. Workshop characteristic - discussion, enough time for presentations and limited number of participants (50) / papers (30) - is typical for the conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Conceptual modelling: Modelling and specification languages; Domain-specific conceptual modelling; Concepts, concept theories and ontologies; Conceptual modelling of large and heterogeneous systems; Conceptual modelling of spatial, temporal and biological data; Methods for developing, validating and communicating conceptual models. 2. Knowledge and information modelling and discovery: Knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and knowledge management; Advanced data mining and analysis methods; Conceptions of knowledge and information; Modelling information requirements; Intelligent information systems; Information recognition and information modelling. 3. Linguistic modelling: Models of HCI; Information delivery to users; Intelligent informal querying; Linguistic foundation of information and knowledge; Fuzzy linguistic models; Philosophical and linguistic foundations of conceptual models. 4. Cross-cultural communication and social computing: Cross-cultural support systems; Integration, evolution and migration of systems; Collaborative societies; Multicultural web-based software systems; Intercultural collaboration and support systems; Social computing, behavioral modeling and prediction. 5. Environmental modelling and engineering: Environmental information systems (architecture); Spatial, temporal and observational information systems; Large-scale environmental systems; Collaborative knowledge base systems; Agent concepts and conceptualisation; Hazard prediction, prevention and steering systems. 6. Multimedia data modelling and systems: Modelling multimedia information and knowledge; Contentbased multimedia data management; Content-based multimedia retrieval; Privacy and context enhancing technologies; Semantics and pragmatics of multimedia data; Metadata for multimedia information systems. Overall we received 56 submissions. After careful evaluation, 16 papers have been selected as long paper, 17 papers as short papers, 5 papers as position papers, and 3 papers for presentation of perspective challenges. We thank all colleagues for their support of this issue of the EJC conference, especially the program committee, the organising committee, and the programme coordination team. The long and the short papers presented in the conference are revised after the conference and published in the Series of “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence” by IOS Press (Amsterdam). The books “Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases” are edited by the Editing Committee of the conference. We believe that the conference will be productive and fruitful in the advance of research and application of information modelling and knowledge bases. Bernhard Thalheim Hannu Jaakkola Yasushi Kiyok
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