Tripartite Graph Clustering for Dynamic Sentiment Analysis on Social Media

The growing popularity of social media (e.g, Twitter) allows users to easily share information with each other and influence others by expressing their own sentiments on various subjects. In this work, we propose an unsupervised \emph{tri-clustering} framework, which analyzes both user-level and tweet-level sentiments through co-clustering of a tripartite graph. A compelling feature of the proposed framework is that the quality of sentiment clustering of tweets, users, and features can be mutually improved by joint clustering. We further investigate the evolution of user-level sentiments and latent feature vectors in an online framework and devise an efficient online algorithm to sequentially update the clustering of tweets, users and features with newly arrived data. The online framework not only provides better quality of both dynamic user-level and tweet-level sentiment analysis, but also improves the computational and storage efficiency. We verified the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approaches on the November 2012 California ballot Twitter data.Comment: A short version is in Proceeding of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of dat

Coupled Microwave Billiards as a Model for Symmetry Breaking

Two superconducting microwave billiards have been electromagnetically coupled in a variable way. The spectrum of the entire system has been measured and the spectral statistics analyzed as a function of the coupling strength. It is shown that the results can be understood in terms of a random matrix model of quantum mechanical symmetry breaking -- as e.g. the violation of parity or isospin in nuclear physics.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

Coleção Biológica de trabalho de Fitonematoides da Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura.

O Brasil é um dos três maiores produtores de frutas do mundo, com destaque para as culturas da bananeira, citros, mamoeiro, abacaxi, maracujá, entre outras.bitstream/item/77660/1/Folder-Colecao-Biologica-de-Fitonematoide-2012.pd

Fast and secure key distribution using mesoscopic coherent states of light

This work shows how two parties A and B can securely share sequences of random bits at optical speeds. A and B possess true-random physical sources and exchange random bits by using a random sequence received to cipher the following one to be sent. A starting shared secret key is used and the method can be described as an unlimited one-time-pad extender. It is demonstrated that the minimum probability of error in signal determination by the eavesdropper can be set arbitrarily close to the pure guessing level. Being based on the $M$-ry encryption protocol this method also allows for optical amplification without security degradation, offering practical advantages over the BB84 protocol for key distribution.Comment: 11 pages and 4 figures. This version updates the one published in PRA 68, 052307 (2003). Minor changes were made in the text and one section on Mutual Information was adde

Confronting cold dark matter cosmologies with strong clustering of Lyman break galaxies at z∼3z\sim3

We perform a detailed analysis of the statistical significance of a concentration of Lyman break galaxies at $z \sim 3$ recently discovered by Steidel et al. (1997), using a series of N-body simulations with $N=256^3$ particles in a (100\himpc)^3 comoving box. While the observed number density of Lyman break galaxies at $z\sim3$ implies that they correspond to systems with dark matter halos of \simlt 10^{12}M_\odot, the resulting clustering of such objects on average is not strong enough to be reconciled with the concentration if it is fairly common; we predict one similar concentration approximately per ($6\sim 10$) fields in three representative cold dark matter models. Considering the current observational uncertainty of the frequency of such clustering at $z\sim3$, it would be premature to rule out the models, but the future spectroscopic surveys in a dozen fields could definitely challenge all the existing cosmological models a posteriori fitted to the $z=0$ universe.Comment: the final version which matchs that published in ApJ Letters (Feb 1998); compared with the previous versions, the predictions for the SCDM model are slightly changed; Latex, 11 pages, including 3 ps figure

Strings, T-duality breaking, and nonlocality without the shortest distance

T-duality of string theory suggests nonlocality manifested as the shortest possible distance. As an alternative, we suggest a nonlocal formulation of string theory that breaks T-duality at the fundamental level and does not require the shortest possible distance. Instead, the string has an objective shape in spacetime at all length scales, but different parts of the string interact in a nonlocal Bohmian manner.Comment: 7 pages, revised, to appear in Eur. Phys. J.

The Effect of Radiative Cooling on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Counts and Angular Power Spectrum: Analytic Treatment

Recently, the entropy excess detected in the central cores of groups and clusters has been successfully interpreted as being due to radiative cooling of the hot intragroup/intracluster gas. In such a scenario, the entropy floors $S_{\rm floor}$ in groups/clusters at any given redshift are completely determined by the conservation of energy. In combination with the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium and the universal density profile for dark matter, this allows us to derive the remaining gas distribution of groups and clusters after the cooled material is removed. Together with the Press-Schechter mass function we are able to evaluate effectively how radiative cooling can modify the predictions of SZ cluster counts and power spectrum. It appears that our analytic results are in good agreement with those found by hydrodynamical simulations. Namely, cooling leads to a moderate decrease of the predicted SZ cluster counts and power spectrum as compared with standard scenario. However, without taking into account energy feedback from star formation which may greatly suppress cooling efficiency, it is still premature to claim that this modification is significant for the cosmological applications of cluster SZ effect.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, uses aastex.cls. ApJ accepte

Avaliação da dinâmica da água no solo e da evapotranspiração, trocas gasosas, estado hídrico e produção da videira.

NO VALE DO SUBMÉDIO SÃO FRANCISCO, OS CULTIVOS DE VIDEIRA DE VINHO SÃO IRRIGADOS DURANTE TODO O ANO. NESSE CULTIVO, A IRRIGAÇÃO COM DEFICIT É UTILIZADA PARA OBTER ALGUMAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DESEJÁVEIS NA UVA PARA A VINIFICAÇÃO. ASSIM, O OBJETIVO DESSE TRABALHO FOI AVALIAR OS EFEITOS DE ESTRATÉGIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO COM DÉFICIT NA PRODUÇÃO DE UVAS DE VINHO EM PETROLINA - PE. O EXPERIMENTO FOI INSTALADO NA EMBRAPA SEMIÁRIDO. A VIDEIRA CV. SYRAH ENXERTADA SOBRE PAULSEN 1103 FOI PLANTADA EM 30 DE ABRIL DE 2009, NO ESPAÇAMENTO DE 1 M X 3 M, E IRRIGADA POR GOTEJAMENTO EM UM ARGISSOLO VERMELHO AMARELO EUTRÓFICO LATOSSÓLICO, TEXTURA MÉDIA. OS TRATAMENTOS DE MANEJO DE IRRIGAÇÃO FORAM: 1 - IRRIGAÇÃO PLENA (IP), SEM A RESTRIÇÃO DE ÁGUA ÀS VIDEIRAS DURANTE TODO O CICLO DE PRODUÇÃO; 2 - IRRIGAÇÃO COM DÉFICIT (ID), ONDE A APLICAÇÃO DE ÁGUA FOI INTERROMPIDA DESDE A FASE DE CACHO FECHADO ATÉ A COLHEITA; 3 - A IRRIGAÇÃO COM DEFICIT CONTROLADO (IDC), ONDE A APLICAÇÃO DE ÁGUA FOI INTERROMPIDA NA FASE DE CACHO FECHADO, COM IRRIGAÇÕES EVENTUAIS CONFORME O MONITORAMENTO DA UMIDADE DO SOLO. NO SÉTIMO CICLO DE PRODUÇÃO (7 DE MAIO DE 2014 A 3 DE SETEMBRO DE 2014 - 119 DIAS), OCORREU UMA PRECIPITAÇÃO TOTAL DE 15,5 MM, SENDO 10,7 MM APÓS A INTERRUPÇÃO DA IRRIGAÇÃO. OS VALORES MÉDIOS DE EVAPOTRANSPÍRAÇÃO DE REFERÊNCIA (ETO) E EVAPOTRANSPIRAÇÃO DA CULTURA (ETC) PARA O PERÍODO DE 119 DIAS FORAM DE 5,0 MM DIA-1 E 3,6 MM DIA-1, RESPECTIVAMENTE, ENQUANTO OS MAIORES VALORES FORAM DE 9,3 MM DIA-1 (115 DIAS APÓS A PODA DE PRODUÇÃO - DAPP, 30 DE AGOSTO DE 2014) E 7,4 MM DIA-1 (80 DAPP, 26 DE JULHO DE 2014). A LÂMINA BRUTA MÉDIA FOI DE 5,6 MM DIA-1 NO TRATAMENTO IP, PARA 83 DIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO; 5,9 MM DIA-1 NO TRATAMENTO IDC, PARA 42 DIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO, E 6,1 MM DIA-1 NO TRATAMENTO ID, EM 37 DIAS DE IRRIGAÇÃO. APÓS O INÍCIO DA INTERRUPÇÃO DA IRRIGAÇÃO NOS TRATAMENTOS ID E IDC, A REDUÇÃO DA UMIDADE DO SOLO OCORREU ATÉ A PROFUNDIDADES DE 0,6 M, EM DECORRÊNCIA DA MAIOR PRESENÇA DO SISTEMA RADICULAR DA CULTURA NESSA CAMADA DE SOLO. NAS PROFUNDIDADES DE 0,75 M A 1,0 M, AS VARIAÇÕES NOS VALORES DE UMIDADE FORAM MENORES. OS VALORES DE POTENCIAL HÍDRICO NA ANTEMANHÃ E AO MEIO-DIA. APRESENTARAM COMPORTAMENTO SIMILAR, COM MAIORES VALORES NAS PLANTAS DE IP E MENORES NAS PLANTAS DE IDC E ID. ENTRETANTO, AS PLANTAS EM IDC E ID NÃO APRESENTAVAM SINTOMAS DE PONTO DE MURCHA PERMANENTE DURANTE A AVALIAÇÃO DE ANTEMANHÃ. OS MENORES VALORES DE POTENCIAL HÍDRICO AO MEIO-DIA EM PLANTAS DE TODOS OS TRATAMENTOS ESTÃO RELACIONADOS COM OS VALORES DA TAXA DE TRANSPIRAÇÃO, OS QUAIS TENDEM A SEREM MAIORES NESTE HORÁRIO, UMA VEZ QUE AS PLANTAS ESTAVAM PERDENDO ÁGUA PARA A ATMOSFERA VIA TRANSPIRAÇÃO. HOUVE EFEITO DOS TRATAMENTOS NA MASSA TOTAL DE CACHOS, NÚMERO DE CACHOS POR PLANTA, MASSA DE CACHOS POR PLANTA E NA PRODUTIVIDADE, COM MAIORES VALORES NO TRATAMENTO IP, SEM DIFERENÇA ESTATÍSTICA PARA O TRATAMENTO IDC. QUANTO A MASSA MÉDIA DE CACHOS, O TRATAMENTO IP APRESENTOU MAIORES VALORES

Water-like hierarchy of anomalies in a continuous spherical shouldered potential

We investigate by molecular dynamics simulations a continuous isotropic core-softened potential with attractive well in three dimensions, introduced by Franzese [cond-mat/0703681, to appear on Journal of Molecular Liquids], that displays liquid-liquid coexistence with a critical point and water-like density anomaly. Here we find diffusion and structural anomalies. These anomalies occur with the same hierarchy that characterizes water. Yet our analysis shows differences with respect to the water case. Therefore, many of the anomalous features of water could be present in isotropic systems with soft-core attractive potentials, such as colloids or liquid metals, consistent with recent experiments showing polyamorphism in metallic glasses.Comment: 27 pages, 9 figures. to appear in J. Chem. Phy