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Logical gaps in the approximate solutions of the social learning game and an exact solution
After the social learning models were proposed, finding the solutions of the
games becomes a well-defined mathematical question. However, almost all papers
on the games and their applications are based on solutions built upon either an
add-hoc argument or a twisted Bayesian analysis of the games. Here, we present
logical gaps in those solutions and an exact solution of our own. We also
introduced a minor extension to the original game such that not only logical
difference but also difference in action outcomes among those solutions become
visible.Comment: A major revisio
A Comparison of the Identity Construction of Foreign Ministers of PRC Regarding the Issues of Territorial Sovereignty and State Relations
The implicature under diplomatic discourse has been an interesting topic for both the media and the public. Foreign minister’s response to the media ought to stand for the position of the government and the foreign minister’s Question Time is made accessible on the Internet, thus the public may get to know what kind of people their leaders are and how they deal with other countries. However, chances are that spokesmen may react variously when they are confronted with some aggressive questions or some questions that make them feel offended. Additionally, different spokesmen may use different tactics in order to set forth China’s position and its attitudes towards territorial sovereignty and state relations. This paper aims to investigate the identity construction of two spokesmen through their responses to the media all over the world and to reveal the implicatures behind these responses. Foreign minister’s Question Time will be used as data
Robust multi-clue face tracking system
In this paper we present a multi-clue face tracking system, based on the combination of a face detector and two independent trackers. The detector, a variant of the Viola-Jones algorithm, is set to generate very low false positive error rate. It initiates the tracking system and updates its state. The trackers, based on 3DRS and optical flow respectively, have been chosen to complement each other in different conditions. The main focus of this work is the integration of the two trackers and the design of a closed loop detector-tracker system, aiming at achieving superior robustness at real-time operation on a PC platform. Tests were carried out to assess the actual performance of the system. With an average of about 95% correct face location rate and no significant false positives, the proposed approach appears to be particularly robust to complex backgrounds, ambient light variation, face orientation and scale changes, partial occlusions, different\ud
facial expressions and presence of other unwanted faces
Optimizing Lossy Compression Rate-Distortion from Automatic Online Selection between SZ and ZFP
With ever-increasing volumes of scientific data produced by HPC applications,
significantly reducing data size is critical because of limited capacity of
storage space and potential bottlenecks on I/O or networks in writing/reading
or transferring data. SZ and ZFP are the two leading lossy compressors
available to compress scientific data sets. However, their performance is not
consistent across different data sets and across different fields of some data
sets: for some fields SZ provides better compression performance, while other
fields are better compressed with ZFP. This situation raises the need for an
automatic online (during compression) selection between SZ and ZFP, with a
minimal overhead. In this paper, the automatic selection optimizes the
rate-distortion, an important statistical quality metric based on the
signal-to-noise ratio. To optimize for rate-distortion, we investigate the
principles of SZ and ZFP. We then propose an efficient online, low-overhead
selection algorithm that predicts the compression quality accurately for two
compressors in early processing stages and selects the best-fit compressor for
each data field. We implement the selection algorithm into an open-source
library, and we evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed solution against
plain SZ and ZFP in a parallel environment with 1,024 cores. Evaluation results
on three data sets representing about 100 fields show that our selection
algorithm improves the compression ratio up to 70% with the same level of data
distortion because of very accurate selection (around 99%) of the best-fit
compressor, with little overhead (less than 7% in the experiments).Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, first revisio
Filament L1482 in the California molecular cloud
Aims. The process of gravitational fragmentation in the L1482 molecular
filament of the California molecular cloud is studied by combining several
complementary observations and physical estimates. We investigate the kinematic
and dynamical states of this molecular filament and physical properties of
several dozens of dense molecular clumps embedded therein.
Methods. We present and compare molecular line emission observations of the
J=2--1 and J=3--2 transitions of 12CO in this molecular complex, using the
KOSMA 3-meter telescope. These observations are complemented with archival data
observations and analyses of the 13CO J=1--0 emission obtained at the Purple
Mountain Observatory 13.7-meter radio telescope at Delingha Station in QingHai
Province of west China, as well as infrared emission maps from the Herschel
Space Telescope online archive, obtained with the SPIRE and PACS cameras.
Comparison of these complementary datasets allow for a comprehensive
multi-wavelength analysis of the L1482 molecular filament.
Results. We have identified 23 clumps along the molecular filament L1482 in
the California molecular cloud. All these molecular clumps show supersonic
non-thermal gas motions. While surprisingly similar in mass and size to the
much better known Orion molecular cloud, the formation rate of high-mass stars
appears to be suppressed in the California molecular cloud relative to that in
the Orion molecular cloud based on the mass-radius threshold derived from the
static Bonnor Ebert sphere. Our analysis suggests that these molecular
filaments are thermally supercritical and molecular clumps may form by
gravitational fragmentation along the filament. Instead of being static, these
molecular clumps are most likely in processes of dynamic evolution.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysic
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