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Spin excitation frequencies in magnetostatically coupled arrays of vortex state circular Permalloy dots
3 páginas, 2 figuras.-- et al.Broadband ferromagnetic resonance in square arrays of Permalloy circular dots with different interdot separations was measured in the vortex ground state. The detected spin excitations show a complicated dependence of their frequencies on the interdot coupling strength. A considerable influence of the interdot separation on the gyrotropic vortex frequency and splitting of the azimuthal spin wave frequencies was detected. The gyrotropic frequency and the first azimuthal doublet frequency splitting depend nonmonotonously on the interdot spacing, whereas the dependence of the second doublet frequency splitting on this parameter is monotonous. The observed effects are explained by the influence of both the dipolar and quadrupolar contributions to the dynamic magnetostatic interactions.The work in Madrid was supported by Spanish MICINN
(Grant Nos. MAT2009-10139, MAT2006-28183-E, and
CSD2007-00010) and CAM (Grant No. S-505/MAT0194).
K.Y.G. and G.R.A. acknowledge support by IKERBASQUE
(the Basque Science Foundation), JAE-doc grant and the
SAIOTEK Grant No. S-PC09UN03. G.N.K. acknowledges
support from Portuguese FCT through the “Ciencia 2007”
program. The work in Kiev was supported by the STCU
Grant No. 5210 and the Grant No. 220-10 from NAS of
Ukraine.Peer reviewe
Opportunistic linked data querying through approximate membership metadata
Between URI dereferencing and the SPARQL protocol lies a largely unexplored axis of possible interfaces to Linked Data, each with its own combination of trade-offs. One of these interfaces is Triple Pattern Fragments, which allows clients to execute SPARQL queries against low-cost servers, at the cost of higher bandwidth. Increasing a client's efficiency means lowering the number of requests, which can among others be achieved through additional metadata in responses. We noted that typical SPARQL query evaluations against Triple Pattern Fragments require a significant portion of membership subqueries, which check the presence of a specific triple, rather than a variable pattern. This paper studies the impact of providing approximate membership functions, i.e., Bloom filters and Golomb-coded sets, as extra metadata. In addition to reducing HTTP requests, such functions allow to achieve full result recall earlier when temporarily allowing lower precision. Half of the tested queries from a WatDiv benchmark test set could be executed with up to a third fewer HTTP requests with only marginally higher server cost. Query times, however, did not improve, likely due to slower metadata generation and transfer. This indicates that approximate membership functions can partly improve the client-side query process with minimal impact on the server and its interface
Co-evolution of RDF Datasets
Linking Data initiatives have fostered the publication of large number of RDF
datasets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud, as well as the development of
query processing infrastructures to access these data in a federated fashion.
However, different experimental studies have shown that availability of LOD
datasets cannot be always ensured, being RDF data replication required for
envisioning reliable federated query frameworks. Albeit enhancing data
availability, RDF data replication requires synchronization and conflict
resolution when replicas and source datasets are allowed to change data over
time, i.e., co-evolution management needs to be provided to ensure consistency.
In this paper, we tackle the problem of RDF data co-evolution and devise an
approach for conflict resolution during co-evolution of RDF datasets. Our
proposed approach is property-oriented and allows for exploiting semantics
about RDF properties during co-evolution management. The quality of our
approach is empirically evaluated in different scenarios on the DBpedia-live
dataset. Experimental results suggest that proposed proposed techniques have a
positive impact on the quality of data in source datasets and replicas.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, Accepted in ICWE, 201
Constraints on Natural MNS Parameters from |U_e3|
The MNS matrix structure emerging as a result of recent neutrino measurements
strongly suggests two large mixing angles (solar and atmospheric) and one small
angle (|U_e3| << 1). Especially when combined with the neutrino mass hierarchy,
these values turn out to impose rather stringent constraints on possible flavor
models connecting the three active fermion generations. Specifically, we show
that an extremely small value of |U_e3| would require fine tuning of Majorana
mass matrix parameters, particularly in the context of seesaw models.Comment: 21 pages, ReVTeX, 2 .eps figure files, updated references and
acknowledgment
Towards a Soft Evaluation and Refinement of Tagging in Digital Humanities
In this paper we estimate the soundness of tagging in digital repositories
within the field of Digital Humanities by studying the (semantic) conceptual structure
behind the folksnonomy. The use of association rules associated to this conceptual
structure (Stem and Luxenburger basis) allows to faithfully (from a semantic
point of view) complete the tagging (or suggest such a completion).Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2013-41086-PJunta de Andalucía TIC-606
Systematic perturbation calculation of integrals with applications to physics
In this paper we generalize and improve a method for calculating the period
of a classical oscillator and other integrals of physical interest, which was
recently developed by some of the authors. We derive analytical expressions
that prove to be more accurate than those commonly found in the literature, and
test the convergence of the series produced by the approach.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Synthetizing Qualitative (Logical) Patterns for Pedestrian Simulation from Data
This work introduces a (qualitative) data-driven framework
to extract patterns of pedestrian behaviour and synthesize Agent-Based
Models. The idea consists in obtaining a rule-based model of pedestrian
behaviour by means of automated methods from data mining. In order to
extract qualitative rules from data, a mathematical theory called Formal
Concept Analysis (FCA) is used. FCA also provides tools for implicational
reasoning, which facilitates the design of qualitative simulations
from both, observations and other models of pedestrian mobility. The
robustness of the method on a general agent-based setting of movable
agents within a grid is shown.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2013-41086-
Supersymmetric Flavor Models and the B --> phi K_S Anomaly
We consider the flavor structure of supersymmetric theories that can account
for the deviation of the observed time-dependent CP asymmetry in B --> phi K_S
from the standard model prediction. Assuming simple flavor symmetries and
effective field theory, we investigate possible correlations between sizable
supersymmetric contributions to b --> s transitions and to flavor changing
processes that are more tightly constrained. With relatively few assumptions,
we determine the properties of minimal Yukawa and soft mass textures that are
compatible with the desired supersymmetric flavor-changing effect and
constraints. We then present explicit models that are designed (at least
approximately) to realize these textures. In particular, we present an Abelian
model based on a single U(1) factor and a non-trivial extra-dimensional
topography that can explain the CP asymmetry in B --> phi K_S, while
suppressing other supersymmetric flavor changing effects through a high degree
of squark-quark alignment.Comment: 18 pages LaTeX, 3 eps figure
Placing objects in context via inpainting for out-of-distribution segmentation
When deploying a semantic segmentation model into the real world, it will inevitably be confronted
with semantic classes unseen during training. Thus, to safely deploy such systems, it is crucial to
accurately evaluate and improve their anomaly segmentation capabilities. However, acquiring and
labelling semantic segmentation data is expensive and unanticipated conditions are long-tail and
potentially hazardous. Indeed, existing anomaly segmentation datasets capture a limited number of
anomalies, lack realism or have strong domain shifts. In this paper, we propose the Placing Objects
in Context (POC) pipeline to realistically add any object into any image via diffusion models. POC
can be used to easily extend any dataset with an arbitrary number of objects. In our experiments,
we present different anomaly segmentation datasets based on POC-generated data and show that
POC can improve the performance of recent state-of-the-art anomaly fine-tuning methods in several
standardized benchmarks. POC is also effective to learn new classes. For example, we use it to edit
Cityscapes samples by adding a subset of Pascal classes and show that models trained on such data
achieve comparable performance to the Pascal-trained baseline. This corroborates the low sim-to-real
gap of models trained on POC-generated images
Crystallisation of amorphous Al-Y-Ni-(Cu)alloys
The nanocrystallisation behaviour and subsequent intermetallics formation
of an amorphous Al88-Y4-Ni8 alloy has been studied. A 1 at% of Al or Ni
was also substituted by Cu and its effect studied. Differential scanning
calorimetry has been used to measure the thermal stability of these
amorphous alloys. Transmission electron microscopy showed the smaller
size of the nanocrystals obtained during primary crystallisation when Cu is
added. Using three-dimensional atom probe, it has been checked that Cu is
homogeneously distributed in the amorphous matrix, not contributing to a
heterogeneous nucleation around Cu clusters during the formation of
nanocrystals. Transmission electron microscopy and X-rays diffraction are
used to study the controversial intermetallics occurrence at higher
temperatures. The sequence and characteristics of the intermetallics
appearing in these alloys were sensitive to the presence of Cu. The evolution
of these intermetallics, up to 600 ºC, has been studied. Findings are
compared with previous studies.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad DPI2015-69550-C2-2-
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