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The Classification of Highly Supersymmetric Supergravity Solutions
The spinorial geometry method is an effective method for constructing
systematic classifications of supersymmetric supergravity solutions. Recent
work on analysing highly supersymmetric solutions in type IIB supergravity
using this method is reviewed [arXiv:hep-th/0606049, arXiv:0710.1829]. It is
shown that all supersymmetric solutions of IIB supergravity with more than 28
Killing spinors are locally maximally supersymmetric.Comment: 23 pages, latex. To appear in the proceedings of the Special Metrics
and Supersymmetry conference at Universidad del Pais Vasco, May 2008.
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Domain-adaptive deep network compression
Deep Neural Networks trained on large datasets can be easily transferred to
new domains with far fewer labeled examples by a process called fine-tuning.
This has the advantage that representations learned in the large source domain
can be exploited on smaller target domains. However, networks designed to be
optimal for the source task are often prohibitively large for the target task.
In this work we address the compression of networks after domain transfer.
We focus on compression algorithms based on low-rank matrix decomposition.
Existing methods base compression solely on learned network weights and ignore
the statistics of network activations. We show that domain transfer leads to
large shifts in network activations and that it is desirable to take this into
account when compressing. We demonstrate that considering activation statistics
when compressing weights leads to a rank-constrained regression problem with a
closed-form solution. Because our method takes into account the target domain,
it can more optimally remove the redundancy in the weights. Experiments show
that our Domain Adaptive Low Rank (DALR) method significantly outperforms
existing low-rank compression techniques. With our approach, the fc6 layer of
VGG19 can be compressed more than 4x more than using truncated SVD alone --
with only a minor or no loss in accuracy. When applied to domain-transferred
networks it allows for compression down to only 5-20% of the original number of
parameters with only a minor drop in performance.Comment: Accepted at ICCV 201
Hospital volume and outcomes for acute pulmonary embolism: Multinational population based cohort study
[Objectives] To evaluate the association between experience in the management of acute pulmonary embolism, reflected by hospital case volume, and mortality.[Design] Multinational population based cohort study using data from the Registro Informatizado de la Enfermedad TromboEmbólica (RIETE) registry between 1 January 2001 and 31 August 2018.[Setting] 353 hospitals in 16 countries.[Participants] 39 257 consecutive patients with confirmed diagnosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism.[Main] outcome measure Pulmonary embolism related mortality within 30 days after diagnosis of the condition.[Results] Patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism admitted to high volume hospitals (>40 pulmonary embolisms per year) had a higher burden of comorbidities. A significant inverse association was seen between annual hospital volume and pulmonary embolism related mortality. Admission to hospitals in the highest quarter (that is, >40 pulmonary embolisms per year) was associated with a 44% reduction in the adjusted odds of pulmonary embolism related mortality at 30 days compared with admission to hospitals in the lowest quarter (<15 pulmonary embolisms per year; adjusted risk 1.3% v 2.3%; adjusted odds ratio 0.56 (95% confidence interval 0.33 to 0.95); P=0.03). Results were consistent in all sensitivity analyses. All cause mortality at 30 days was not significantly reduced between the two quarters (adjusted odds ratio 0.78 (0.50 to 1.22); P=0.28). Survivors showed little change in the odds of recurrent venous thromboembolism (odds ratio 0.76 (0.49 to 1.19)) or major bleeding (1.07 (0.77 to 1.47)) between the low and high volume hospitals.[Conclusions] In patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism, admission to high volume hospitals was associated with significant reductions in adjusted pulmonary embolism related mortality at 30 days. These findings could have implications for management strategies.Peer reviewe
Porous medium equation with nonlocal pressure
We provide a rather complete description of the results obtained so far on
the nonlinear diffusion equation , which describes a flow through a porous medium driven by a
nonlocal pressure. We consider constant parameters and , we assume
that the solutions are non-negative, and the problem is posed in the whole
space. We present a theory of existence of solutions, results on uniqueness,
and relation to other models. As new results of this paper, we prove the
existence of self-similar solutions in the range when and , and the
asymptotic behavior of solutions when . The cases and were
rather well known.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figure
Ac magnetic susceptibility of a molecular magnet submonolayer directly patterned onto a microSQUID sensor
We report the controlled integration, via Dip Pen Nanolithography, of
monolayer dots of ferritin-based CoO nanoparticles (12 Bohr magnetons) into the
most sensitive areas of a microSQUID sensor. The nearly optimum flux coupling
between these nanomagnets and the microSQUID improves the achievable
sensitivity by a factor 100, enabling us to measure the linear susceptibility
of the molecular array down to very low temperatures (13 mK). This method opens
the possibility of applying ac susceptibility experiments to characterize
two-dimensional arrays of single molecule magnets within a wide range of
temperatures and frequencies.Comment: 4 pages 3 figure
Matrix Assisted Formation of Ferrihydrite Nanoparticles in a Siloxane/Poly(Oxyethylene) Nanohybrid
Matrix-assisted formation of ferrihydrite, an iron oxide hydroxide analogue
of the protein ferritin-core, in a sol-gel derived organic-inorganic hybrid is
reported. The hybrid network (named di-ureasil) is composed of
poly(oxyethylene) chains of different average polymer molecular weights grafted
to siloxane domains by means of urea cross-linkages and accommodates
ferrihydrite nanoparticles. Magnetic measurements, Fourier transform infrared
and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveal that the controlled
modification of the polymer molecular weight allows the fine-tuning of the
ability of the hybrid matrix to assist and promote iron coordination at the
organic-inorganic interface and subsequent nucleation and growth of the
ferrihydrite nanoparticles whose core size (2-4 nm) is tuned by the amount of
iron incorporated. The polymer chain length, its arrangement and crystallinity,
are key factors on the anchoring and formation of the ferrihydrite particles.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures. To be published in J. Mater. Che
Nuclear Bar, Star Formation and Gas Fueling in the Active Galaxy NGC 4303
A combination of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 and NICMOS images are
used to investigate the gas/dust and stellar structure inside the central 300
pc of the nearby active galaxy NGC 4303.
The NICMOS H-band (F160W) image reveals a bright core and a nuclear elongated
bar-like structure of 250 pc in diameter. The bar is centered on the bright
core, and its major axis is oriented in proyection along the spin axis of the
nuclear gaseous rotating disk recently detected (Colina & Arribas 1999).
The V-H (F606W - F160W) image reveals a complex gas/dust distribution with a
two-arm spiral structure of about 225 pc in radius. The southwestern arm is
traced by young star-forming knots while the northeastern arm is detected by
the presence of dust lanes. These spirals do not have a smooth structure but
rather they are made of smaller flocculent spirals or filament-like structures.
The magnitudes and colors of the star-forming knots are typical of clusters of
young stars with masses of 0.5 to 1 x yr^{-1} for about 80 Myr.Comment: ApJ, in press (February 1, 2000
Quantum phases of a qutrit
We consider various approaches to treat the phases of a qutrit. Although it
is possible to represent qutrits in a convenient geometrical manner by
resorting to a generalization of the Poincare sphere, we argue that the
appropriate way of dealing with this problem is through phase operators
associated with the algebra su(3). The rather unusual properties of these
phases are caused by the small dimension of the system and are explored in
detail. We also examine the positive operator-valued measures that can describe
the qutrit phase properties.Comment: 6 page
Bound states of bosons and fermions in a mixed vector-scalar coupling with unequal shapes for the potentials
The Klein-Gordon and the Dirac equations with vector and scalar potentials
are investigated under a more general condition, . These intrinsically relativistic and isospectral problems
are solved in a case of squared hyperbolic potential functions and bound states
for either particles or antiparticles are found. The eigenvalues and
eigenfuntions are discussed in some detail and the effective Compton wavelength
is revealed to be an important physical quantity. It is revealed that a boson
is better localized than a fermion when they have the same mass and are
subjected to the same potentials.Comment: 3 figure
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