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ON A NEW CLASS OF SMARANDACHE PRIME NUMBERS
The purpose of this note is to report on the discovery of some new prime numbers
that were built from factorials, the Smarandache Consecutive Sequence, and the
Smarandache Reverse Sequenc
Caddo Pottery in Modern and Contemporary Art and Protection of Native American Cultures in Fine Arts by the IACB’s Indian Arts and Crafts Act
Hello, my name is Chase Kawinhut Earles. I was named by Julia Edge, daughter of Pauline Washington, who was the granddaughter of the Caddo chief, George Washington. I recently, well, not that very long ago started creating Caddo pottery with the much appreciated guidance from Jeri Redcorn. I have been an artist all my life, but mostly only a painter, not much clay, sculpture or pottery. I was inspired to create pottery though, but my experiences were with the Southwest and the Pueblo artists, as this is what I grew up around and what I learned. But I never started. I never found any inspiration. I realized one day it was because I am not a Pueblo Indian and creating Pueblo or Southwest pottery would, to me, feel hollow. I would feel as though I was just creating knock-offs or replications, and not truly inspired or authentic art. This beginning is what defines me and my ideas about Native American Art. Jeri Redcorn and I are two of only maybe a few active Caddo traditional potters. As we work to revive our long tradition and heritage of pottery we have started to unfold an ancient legacy that has proven to be very unique among other native cultures
North American liaisons
Not only are there strong cultural connections between Northern Ireland and North America, but
much of the geology of Northern Ireland is related to its shared history with the eastern seaboard
of Canada and the USA. Even the opening of the Atlantic Ocean and the parting of North
America from Europe left the Giant’s Causeway as a legacy. Events like this over geological time
have given Northern Ireland a greater geological diversity than any similar-sized area on Earth
and have provided opportunities to explore for minerals, to understand how we can manage
groundwater sustainably and to enthuse generations about the mysteries of our landscape
Combining Functional Data Registration and Factor Analysis
We extend the definition of functional data registration to encompass a
larger class of registered functions. In contrast to traditional registration
models, we allow for registered functions that have more than one primary
direction of variation. The proposed Bayesian hierarchical model simultaneously
registers the observed functions and estimates the two primary factors that
characterize variation in the registered functions. Each registered function is
assumed to be predominantly composed of a linear combination of these two
primary factors, and the function-specific weights for each observation are
estimated within the registration model. We show how these estimated weights
can easily be used to classify functions after registration using both
simulated data and a juggling data set.Comment: The paper was updated with a better real data exampl
Characterizing Evaporation Ducts Within the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Artificial Neural Networks
We apply a multilayer perceptron machine learning (ML) regression approach to
infer electromagnetic (EM) duct heights within the marine atmospheric boundary
layer (MABL) using sparsely sampled EM propagation data obtained within a
bistatic context. This paper explains the rationale behind the selection of the
ML network architecture, along with other model hyperparameters, in an effort
to demystify the process of arriving at a useful ML model. The resulting speed
of our ML predictions of EM duct heights, using sparse data measurements within
MABL, indicates the suitability of the proposed method for real-time
applications.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Gaussian Process Regression for Estimating EM Ducting Within the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
We show that Gaussian process regression (GPR) can be used to infer the
electromagnetic (EM) duct height within the marine atmospheric boundary layer
(MABL) from sparsely sampled propagation factors within the context of bistatic
radars. We use GPR to calculate the posterior predictive distribution on the
labels (i.e. duct height) from both noise-free and noise-contaminated array of
propagation factors. For duct height inference from noise-contaminated
propagation factors, we compare a naive approach, utilizing one random sample
from the input distribution (i.e. disregarding the input noise), with an
inverse-variance weighted approach, utilizing a few random samples to estimate
the true predictive distribution. The resulting posterior predictive
distributions from these two approaches are compared to a "ground truth"
distribution, which is approximated using a large number of Monte-Carlo
samples. The ability of GPR to yield accurate and fast duct height predictions
using a few training examples indicates the suitability of the proposed method
for real-time applications.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
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