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Yukawa enhancement of -mediated New Physics in and Processes
We discuss Yukawa-enhanced contributions from -mediated new physics to
down-type quark processes in the framework of the standard model
gauge-invariant effective theory (SMEFT). Besides the renormalization group
(RG) mixing of the -mediating operators into
operators, we include at the electroweak scale one-loop (NLO) matching
corrections consistently, necessary for the removal of the matching scale
dependence. We point out that the right-handed -mediated interactions
generate through Yukawa RG mixing left-right operators, which are
further enhanced through QCD RG effects and chirally enhanced hadronic matrix
elements. We investigate the impact of these new effects on the known
correlations between and transitions in the SMEFT
framework and point out qualitative differences to previous parameterizations
of -mediated new physics that arise for the left-handed case. We illustrate
how specific models fit into our model-independent framework by using four
models with vector-like quarks. We carry out model-independent analyses of
scenarios with purely left-handed and purely right-handed new-physics
couplings for each of the three sectors , and .
Specifically we discuss the correlations between ,
, and
in the Kaon sector, and ,
and in the sector and
in the sector.Comment: 40 pages, 11 figures; v2: 2nd plot in figure 2 and references added,
comparison with v2 of 1612.08839, conclusion unchanged; v3: improvements on
text and presentation, matches published versio
Effect of reinforcing submicron SiC particles on the wear of electrolytic NiP coatings Part 2: Bi-directional sliding
As-plated and heat-treated electrodeposited NiP and composite NiP-SiC coatings were investigated in bi-directional ball-on-disc sliding tests. All tests were performed under gross slip conditions. Heat treatment decreases the wear volume loss during fretting in ambient air for all coatings investigated. Heat-treated NiP coating has a lower wear volume loss compared to composite NiP-SiC coatings for all sliding tests. The wear rate at the bi-directional sliding test was found to be lower relative to the wear rate at uni-directional sliding test
Effect of reinforcing submicron SiC particles on the wear of electrolytic NiP coatings Part 1. Uni-directional sliding
As-plated and annealed NiP coatings and composite NiP-SiC coatings were investigated in uni-directional ball-on-disc sliding tests. Abrasive wear was noticed in the case of composite NiP coatings containing submicron SiC particles, whereas in NiP coatings oxidational wear was active. The addition of submicron SiC particles not only increases the hardness of these electrolytic coatings but also hinders the formation of an oxide film in the sliding wear track. As a consequence, the wear loss on as-plated NiP coatings is not markedly reduced by the addition of SiC particles. On the contrary, a heat treatment at 420 °C for 1 h decreases the wear loss on both pure NiP and composite NiP-SiC coatings. During that heat treatment, Ni3P precipitates are formed in the NiP matrix and owing to this fact, the hardness of both pure NiP and composite NiP-SiC coatings increases. However, the heat treatment of composite NiP-SiC coatings induces the sensitivity for crack formation in the NiP matrix around these SiC particles. As a result, the pull out of SiC particles in the wear track occurs easily during sliding, and the wear loss of composite NiP-SiC coatings remains above the wear loss on NiP coatings
Fairness-Aware Ranking in Search & Recommendation Systems with Application to LinkedIn Talent Search
We present a framework for quantifying and mitigating algorithmic bias in
mechanisms designed for ranking individuals, typically used as part of
web-scale search and recommendation systems. We first propose complementary
measures to quantify bias with respect to protected attributes such as gender
and age. We then present algorithms for computing fairness-aware re-ranking of
results. For a given search or recommendation task, our algorithms seek to
achieve a desired distribution of top ranked results with respect to one or
more protected attributes. We show that such a framework can be tailored to
achieve fairness criteria such as equality of opportunity and demographic
parity depending on the choice of the desired distribution. We evaluate the
proposed algorithms via extensive simulations over different parameter choices,
and study the effect of fairness-aware ranking on both bias and utility
measures. We finally present the online A/B testing results from applying our
framework towards representative ranking in LinkedIn Talent Search, and discuss
the lessons learned in practice. Our approach resulted in tremendous
improvement in the fairness metrics (nearly three fold increase in the number
of search queries with representative results) without affecting the business
metrics, which paved the way for deployment to 100% of LinkedIn Recruiter users
worldwide. Ours is the first large-scale deployed framework for ensuring
fairness in the hiring domain, with the potential positive impact for more than
630M LinkedIn members.Comment: This paper has been accepted for publication at ACM KDD 201
Textural properties of synthetic clay-ferrihydrite associations
13 páginas, 8 figuras, 3 tablas, 35 referencias.Kaolinite-ferrihydrite and montmorillonite-ferrihydrite associations were prepared
following a procedure based on the Russell method for the synthesis of ferrihydrite and the texture of
the clay-ferrihydrite complexes was studied using different techniques. The textural properties of
kaolinite were little affected by the Fe association, showing only a slight .increase in the specific
surface area measured by nitrogen adsorption and a decrease in the largest pores (>10 micro m), as
measured by mercury porosimetry. In contrast, the nitrogen specific surface area of the
montmorillonite complexes was much higher than that of the clay without Fe and the pore structure
depended on the amounts of Fe in the complexes. Application of the fractal approach to nitrogen
adsorption data indicated that the surface roughness (microporosity) was greater for the complexes
prepared from diluted Fe(III) solutions, in agreement with the information obtained from classical
interpretation of the adsorption isotherms (shape of the isotherms and t-plots).This study has been supported partially by the CICYT
through the project AMB-93-81 , AMB-96-445-C02-
02, the EU project EV 5V-CT94-0470, and by the
Research Group RNM 124 of Junta de AndalucÃa. R. Celis also thanks the Spanish Ministry of Education
and Science for his PFPU fellowship.Peer reviewe
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