2,354 research outputs found
Visual illusions of movement
Visual illusions related to involuntary eye movemen
Christ and His Kingdom: A Review of R.H. Boll
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Towards practical classical processing for the surface code: timing analysis
Topological quantum error correction codes have high thresholds and are well
suited to physical implementation. The minimum weight perfect matching
algorithm can be used to efficiently handle errors in such codes. We perform a
timing analysis of our current implementation of the minimum weight perfect
matching algorithm. Our implementation performs the classical processing
associated with an nxn lattice of qubits realizing a square surface code
storing a single logical qubit of information in a fault-tolerant manner. We
empirically demonstrate that our implementation requires only O(n^2) average
time per round of error correction for code distances ranging from 4 to 512 and
a range of depolarizing error rates. We also describe tests we have performed
to verify that it always obtains a true minimum weight perfect matching.Comment: 13 pages, 13 figures, version accepted for publicatio
Providing support for decision making to adults with intellectual disability: Perspectives of family members and workers in disability support services
Background: Supporting people with intellectual disability to make decisions is an important issue for policy implementation yet there is little evidence about the practice of providing support.
Method: This study aimed to understand the experiences of family members and disability support workers in providing support to adults with intellectual disability in Victoria, Australia. Twenty-three people drawn from these two groups participated in individual or focus group interviews.
Results: Three major themes emerged from inductive thematic analysis: their ideas about decision support, approaches to support, and challenges they faced. Overall these revolved around juggling rights, practicalities, and risks
Conclusions: This study identified some of the challenges and practical strategies for providing decision support that can be used to inform practice and capacity building resources for supporters
Calibration of the NASA-GSFC high energy cosmic ray experiment
Calibration of high energy cosmic ray experimen
Towards practical classical processing for the surface code
The surface code is unarguably the leading quantum error correction code for
2-D nearest neighbor architectures, featuring a high threshold error rate of
approximately 1%, low overhead implementations of the entire Clifford group,
and flexible, arbitrarily long-range logical gates. These highly desirable
features come at the cost of significant classical processing complexity. We
show how to perform the processing associated with an nxn lattice of qubits,
each being manipulated in a realistic, fault-tolerant manner, in O(n^2) average
time per round of error correction. We also describe how to parallelize the
algorithm to achieve O(1) average processing per round, using only constant
computing resources per unit area and local communication. Both of these
complexities are optimal.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, published version with some additional tex
Antenna pattern shaping, sensing, and steering study Final report
Design of steerable satellite antenna with beam pattern sensing syste
Natural and Anthropogenic Forces Acting on a Forest Lake
ABS1RACT-Lak~ Itasca, Minnes~ta is located within one of the more popular state parks. Since the turn of the centmy, loggmg, fire protection, and development within the watershed have put modest pressures on the ecosystem. The presence of the University of Minnesota\u27s Biological and Forestry Station on the lake has encouraged research in this region. Consequently there are numerous research reports and papers which are available _at the station\u27s library. We examined data collected over the past 25 years to see if we could detect changes ~~ the lake. We detected no changes in phytoplankton, macrophyte, zooplankton, or zoobenthos com~urnues, but ch~ges have ?ccu_rred in four species of the fish community-bluegill, walleye, black crapp~e an? northern pike. There 1s evidence for warmer temperatures during a critical period (May) for most aquatic animals. If true it will affect the biotic interactions to the extent of shifting the equilibrium of the lake
Sex-specific fundamental and formant frequency patterns in a cross-sectional study
An extensive developmental acoustic study of the speech patterns of children and adults was reported by Lee and colleagues [Lee et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 1455-1468 (1999)]. This paper presents a reexamination of selected fundamental frequency and formant frequency data presented in their report for 10 monophthongs by investigating sex-specific and developmental patterns using two different approaches. The first of these includes the investigation of age- and sex-specific formant frequency patterns in the monophthongs. The second, the investigation of fundamental frequency and formant frequency data using the critical band rate (bark) scale and a number of acoustic-phonetic dimensions of the monophthongs from an age- and sex-specific perspective. These acoustic-phonetic dimensions include: vowel spaces and distances from speaker centroids; frequency differences between the formant frequencies of males and females; vowel openness/closeness and frontness/backness; the degree of vocal effort; and formant frequency ranges. Both approaches reveal both age- and sex-specific development patterns which also appear to be dependent on whether vowels are peripheral or non-peripheral. The developmental emergence of these sex-specific differences are discussed with reference to anatomical, physiological, sociophonetic and culturally determined factors. Some directions for further investigation into the age-linked sex differences in speech across the lifespan are also proposed
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