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Reciprocal Recommender System for Learners in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Massive open online courses (MOOC) describe platforms where users with
completely different backgrounds subscribe to various courses on offer. MOOC
forums and discussion boards offer learners a medium to communicate with each
other and maximize their learning outcomes. However, oftentimes learners are
hesitant to approach each other for different reasons (being shy, don't know
the right match, etc.). In this paper, we propose a reciprocal recommender
system which matches learners who are mutually interested in, and likely to
communicate with each other based on their profile attributes like age,
location, gender, qualification, interests, etc. We test our algorithm on data
sampled using the publicly available MITx-Harvardx dataset and demonstrate that
both attribute importance and reciprocity play an important role in forming the
final recommendation list of learners. Our approach provides promising results
for such a system to be implemented within an actual MOOC.Comment: 10 pages, accepted as full paper @ ICWL 201
Graph-based Features for Automatic Online Abuse Detection
While online communities have become increasingly important over the years,
the moderation of user-generated content is still performed mostly manually.
Automating this task is an important step in reducing the financial cost
associated with moderation, but the majority of automated approaches strictly
based on message content are highly vulnerable to intentional obfuscation. In
this paper, we discuss methods for extracting conversational networks based on
raw multi-participant chat logs, and we study the contribution of graph
features to a classification system that aims to determine if a given message
is abusive. The conversational graph-based system yields unexpectedly high
performance , with results comparable to those previously obtained with a
content-based approach
Principles of Control for Decoherence-Free Subsystems
Decoherence-Free Subsystems (DFS) are a powerful means of protecting quantum
information against noise with known symmetry properties. Although Hamiltonians
theoretically exist that can implement a universal set of logic gates on DFS
encoded qubits without ever leaving the protected subsystem, the natural
Hamiltonians that are available in specific implementations do not necessarily
have this property. Here we describe some of the principles that can be used in
such cases to operate on encoded qubits without losing the protection offered
by the DFS. In particular, we show how dynamical decoupling can be used to
control decoherence during the unavoidable excursions outside of the DFS. By
means of cumulant expansions, we show how the fidelity of quantum gates
implemented by this method on a simple two-physical-qubit DFS depends on the
correlation time of the noise responsible for decoherence. We further show by
means of numerical simulations how our previously introduced "strongly
modulating pulses" for NMR quantum information processing can permit
high-fidelity operations on multiple DFS encoded qubits in practice, provided
that the rate at which the system can be modulated is fast compared to the
correlation time of the noise. The principles thereby illustrated are expected
to be broadly applicable to many implementations of quantum information
processors based on DFS encoded qubits.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Depression in Luminous Starburst Mergers
It is known that the class of luminous starburst galaxies tends to have
higher integrated line intensity ratios
() than normal spiral galaxies (). Since most previous studies
investigated only , it remains uncertain whether the luminous starburst
galaxies are overabundant in CO or underabundant in CO. Here we
propose a new observational test to examine this problem. Our new test is to
compare far-infrared luminosities [(FIR)] with those of CO and
and , respectively]. It is shown that there
is a very tight correlation between and L(FIR), as found in many
previous studies. However, we find that the CO luminosities of the
high-R galaxies are lower by a factor of three on the average than those
expected from the correlation for the remaining galaxies with ordinary
values. Therefore, we conclude that the observed high values for the
luminous starburst galaxies are attributed to their lower CO line
intensities.Comment: 9 pages (aaspp4.sty), 3 postscript figures (embedded). Accepted for
publication in Astrophysical Journal Letter
Magnetic Behavior in RRhX (R = rare earths; X=B, C) Compounds
We report on the magnetic behavior of RRhB (R = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, Tb and
Tm) and RRhC (R = La, Ce, Pr and Gd) compounds crystallizing in the cubic
perovskite type structure with space group Pm3m. The heat capacity data on
Pauli-paramagnetic LaRhB and LaRhC indicate a high frequency vibrating motion
of boron and carbon atoms in the unit cell. Ce is in -like nonmagnetic state in
both the compounds. Pr compounds show a dominant crystal field effect with a
nonmagnetic singlet ground state in PrRhB and a nonmagnetic quadrupolar doublet
in PrRhC. Compounds with other rare earths order ferromagnetically at low
temperatures except TmRhB in which the zero field evolution of magnetic
interactions is relatively more complicated. The electrical resistivity of
GdRhB decreases with increasing temperature in the paramagnetic state in the
vicinity of T, which is rarely seen in ferromagnets. The behavior is discussed
to be arising due to the short range spin fluctuation and a possible
contribution from Fermi surface geometry.Comment: 14 Figs and a text fil
Shaping the formation of university-industry research collaborations: what type of proximity does really matter?
Research collaborations between universities and industry (U-I) are considered to be one important channel of potential localized knowledge spillovers (LKS). These collaborations favour both intended and unintended flows of knowledge and facilitate learning processes between partners from different organizations. Despite the copious literature on LKS, still little is known about the factors driving the formation of U-I research collaborations and, in particular, about the role that geographical proximity plays in the establishment of such relationships. Using collaborative research grants between universities and business firms awarded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in this article we disentangle some of the conditions under which different kinds of proximity contribute to the formation of U-I research collaborations, focusing in particular on clustering and technological complementarity among the firms participating in such partnerships
Information Horizons in Networks
We investigate and quantify the interplay between topology and ability to
send specific signals in complex networks. We find that in a majority of
investigated real-world networks the ability to communicate is favored by the
network topology on small distances, but disfavored at larger distances. We
further discuss how the ability to locate specific nodes can be improved if
information associated to the overall traffic in the network is available.Comment: Submitted top PR
XMM-Newton Archival Study of the ULX Population in Nearby Galaxies
We present the results of an archival XMM-Newton study of the bright X-ray
point sources (L_X > 10^38 erg/s) in 32 nearby galaxies. From our list of
approximately 100 point sources, we attempt to determine if there is a
low-state counterpart to the Ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) population, searching
for a soft-hard state dichotomy similar to that known for Galactic X-ray
binaries and testing the specific predictions of the IMBH hypothesis. To this
end, we searched for "low-state" objects, which we defined as objects within
our sample which had a spectrum well fit by a simple absorbed power law, and
"high-state" objects, which we defined as objects better fit by a combined
blackbody and a power law. Assuming that ``low-state'' objects accrete at
approximately 10% of the Eddington luminosity (Done & Gierlinski 2003) and that
"high-state" objects accrete near the Eddington luminosity we further divided
our sample of sources into low and high state ULX sources. We classify 16
sources as low-state ULXs and 26 objects as high-state ULXs. As in Galactic
black hole systems, the spectral indices, Gamma, of the low-state objects, as
well as the luminosities, tend to be lower than those of the high-state
objects. The observed range of blackbody temperatures for the high state is
0.1-1 keV, with the most luminous systems tending toward the lowest
temperatures. We therefore divide our high-state ULXs into candidate IMBHs
(with blackbody temperatures of approximately 0.1 keV) and candidate stellar
mass BHs (with blackbody temperatures of approximately 1.0 keV). A subset of
the candidate stellar mass BHs have spectra that are well-fit by a
Comptonization model, a property similar of Galactic BHs radiating in the
"very-high" state near the Eddington limit.Comment: 54 pages, submitted to ApJ (March 2005), accepted (May 2006); changes
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