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A quantitative evaluation of the role of the Argentinean Col and the Low Pressure Tongue East of the Andes for frontogenesis in the South American subtropics
Previous studies have found the South American subtropics to exhibit high climatological frontogenesis in equivalent potential temperature during the austral summer. An important contribution to this pattern is given by frontogenesis over the Argentinean Col (AC), which separates the Northwestern Argentinean Low (NAL) from transient troughs to the south of it. The NAL and the Low Pressure Tongue east of the Andes (LPT) promote efficient transport of Amazonian humidity to the subtropics during the incursion of transient disturbances over the continent. The convergence of this strong warm and humid flow with mid-latitude air brought into the subtropics by the disturbance occurs preferentially in the neighborhood of the AC. The main difficulty in quantifying the contribution of the NAL, AC and LPT structure to frontogenesis in the South American subtropics is the automatic detection of the AC and LPT. In this paper an algorithm developed to this end is briefly presented and applied to obtain statistics on the role of these structures in frontogenesis. Six-hourly data from ECMWF ERA-40 Reanalysis over 21 austral summer periods (December–March) is used. Occurrences of the AC are highly concentrated between 34–39° S and 66–69° W, being present in this region in 42% of the time instants analyzed. The spatial average of the positive values of the frontogenesis over this region was calculated for each time step as a measure of intensity and histograms were built for the cases when the AC was and was not found inside this region. Mean, median and mode are larger for the distribution of cases with the presence of the AC. In addition, we present the frequency of occurrence of the AC as a function of the frontogenesis, showing that it grows with the intensity of the frontogenesis, rising above the 0.955 quantile. We have not found any correlation between the AC frequency and the frontolysis intensity
On the stability of spacelike hypersurfaces
In this paper we study the strong stability of spacelike hypersurfaces with
constant -th mean curvature in Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes of
constant sectional curvature. In particular, we treat the case in which the
ambient spacetime is the de Sitter space
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
Selection via simulated individual BLUP based on family genotypic effects in sugarcane.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi propor uma nova estratégia de seleção nos estádios iniciais do desenvolvimento da cana-de-açúcar, utilizando-se a metodologia BLUP individual simulado (BLUPIS) que promove a distribuição dinâmica dos indivÃduos selecionados em cada famÃlia de irmãos-completos, usando BLUP como base para os efeitos genotÃpicos da famÃlia e para os efeitos de parcela. O método proposto se aplica a famÃlias de irmãos-completos simples ou obtidas de cruzamentos dialélicos desbalanceados ou balanceados, famÃlias de meios-irmãos e famÃlias de autofecundação. Por meio do BLUPIS, indica-se o número de indivÃduos a ser selecionado por famÃlia, o número total de clones a ser avançado e o número de famÃlias a contribuir com indivÃduos selecionados. A validação do método propiciou uma correlação de 0,96 entre o BLUPIS e o BLUP verdadeiro. Além disso, o BLUPIS permite identificar em qual repetição encontram-se os melhores indivÃduos de cada famÃlia
Morphology of travel routes and the organization of cities
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All data needed to evaluate the conclusions are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Additional data related to this paper may be requested from the authors and are also available at https://github.com/mlee96/inness_research.The city is a complex system that evolves through its inherent social and economic interactions. Mediating the movements of people and resources, urban street networks offer a spatial footprint of these activities. Of particular interest is the interplay between street structure and its functional usage. Here, we study the shape of 472,040 spatiotemporally optimized travel routes in the 92 most populated cities in the world, finding that their collective morphology exhibits a directional bias influenced by the attractive (or repulsive) forces resulting from congestion, accessibility, and travel demand. To capture this, we develop a simple geometric measure, inness, that maps this force field. In particular, cities with common inness patterns cluster together in groups that are correlated with their putative stage of urban development as measured by a series of socio-economic and infrastructural indicators, suggesting a strong connection between urban development, increasing physical connectivity, and diversity of road hierarchies.US Army Research OfficeNational Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICTMinistry of Education of the Republic of Kore
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