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Charmless two-body B decays: A global analysis with QCD factorization
In this paper, we perform a global analysis of and decays
with the QCD factorization approach. It is encouraging to observe that the
predictions of QCD factorization are in good agreement with experiment. The
best fit is around . The penguin-to-tree ratio of decays is preferred to be larger than 0.3.
We also show the confidence levels for some interesting channels: , and , . For decays, they are expected to have smaller branching ratios with
more precise measurements.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Deep Learning Based Vehicle Make-Model Classification
This paper studies the problems of vehicle make & model classification. Some
of the main challenges are reaching high classification accuracy and reducing
the annotation time of the images. To address these problems, we have created a
fine-grained database using online vehicle marketplaces of Turkey. A pipeline
is proposed to combine an SSD (Single Shot Multibox Detector) model with a CNN
(Convolutional Neural Network) model to train on the database. In the pipeline,
we first detect the vehicles by following an algorithm which reduces the time
for annotation. Then, we feed them into the CNN model. It is reached
approximately 4% better classification accuracy result than using a
conventional CNN model. Next, we propose to use the detected vehicles as ground
truth bounding box (GTBB) of the images and feed them into an SSD model in
another pipeline. At this stage, it is reached reasonable classification
accuracy result without using perfectly shaped GTBB. Lastly, an application is
implemented in a use case by using our proposed pipelines. It detects the
unauthorized vehicles by comparing their license plate numbers and make &
models. It is assumed that license plates are readable.Comment: 10 pages, ICANN 2018: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learnin
The Value of the Trout Fishery at Rhodes, North Eastern Cape, South Africa, A Travel Cost Analysis Using Count Data Models
The National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, no.10 of 2004) makes provision for the presence of alien trout in South African waters by means of a zoning system, partly in recognition of the significant income generating potential of trout fishing in South Africa. This paper reports the first formal recreational valuation of a trout fishery in South Africa, the one in and around Rhodes village, North Eastern Cape. The valuation is carried out by applying the individual travel cost method using several count data models. The zero truncated negative binomial model yielded the most appealing results. It accounts for the non-negative integer nature of the trip data, for truncation and over-dispersion. The paper finds that in 2007 consumer surplus per day visit to the Rhodes trout fishery was R2 668, consumer surplus per trip visit was R13 072, and the total consumer surplus generated was R18 026 288.
The hydrostatic equilibrium and Tsallis equilibrium for self-gravitating systems
Self-gravitating systems are generally thought to behavior non-extensively
due to the long-range nature of gravitational forces. We obtain a relation
between the nonextensive parameter q of Tsallis statistics, the temperature
gradient and the gravitational potential based on the equation of hydrostatic
equilibrium of self-gravitating systems. It is suggested that the nonextensive
parameter in Tsallis statistics has a clear physical meaning with regard to the
non-isothermal nature of the systems with long-range interactions and Tsallis
equilibrium distribution for the self-gravitating systems describes the
property of hydrostatic equilibrium of the systems.Comment: 7 pages, 9 Reference
Comment on "Self-Purification in Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
In a recent Letter [PRL 96, 226802 (2006)], Dalpian and Chelikowsky claimed
that formation energies of Mn impurities in CdSe nanocrystals increase as the
size of the nanocrystal decreases, and argued that this size dependence leads
to "self-purification" of small nanocrystals. They presented
density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations showing a strong size dependence
for Mn impurity formation energies, and proposed a general explanation. In this
Comment we show that several different DFT codes, pseudopotentials, and
exchange-correlation functionals give a markedly different result: We find no
such size dependence. More generally, we argue that formation energies are not
relevant to substitutional doping in most colloidally grown nanocrystals.Comment: 1 page, 1 figur
Semiclassical Green Function in Mixed Spaces
A explicit formula on semiclassical Green functions in mixed position and
momentum spaces is given, which is based on Maslov's multi-dimensional
semiclassical theory. The general formula includes both coordinate and momentum
representations of Green functions as two special cases of the form.Comment: 8 pages, typeset by Scientific Wor
On the Approximability and Hardness of the Minimum Connected Dominating Set with Routing Cost Constraint
In the problem of minimum connected dominating set with routing cost
constraint, we are given a graph , and the goal is to find the
smallest connected dominating set of such that, for any two
non-adjacent vertices and in , the number of internal nodes on the
shortest path between and in the subgraph of induced by is at most times that in . For general graphs, the only
known previous approximability result is an -approximation algorithm
() for by Ding et al. For any constant , we
give an -approximation
algorithm. When , we give an -approximation
algorithm. Finally, we prove that, when , unless , for any constant , the problem admits no
polynomial-time -approximation algorithm, improving
upon the bound by Du et al. (albeit under a stronger hardness
assumption)
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