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Campus Mobility for the Future: The Electric Bicycle
Sustainable and practical personal mobility solutions for campus environments have traditionally revolved around the use of bicycles, or provision of pedestrian facilities. However many campus environments also experience traffic congestion, parking difficulties and pollution from fossil-fuelled vehicles. It appears that pedal power alone has not been sufficient to supplant the use of petrol and diesel vehicles to date, and therefore it is opportune to investigate both the reasons behind the continual use of environmentally unfriendly transport, and consider potential solutions. This paper presents the results from a year-long study into electric bicycle effectiveness for a large tropical campus, identifying barriers to bicycle use that can be overcome through the availability of public use electric bicycles
Moduli spaces of vector bundles over a Klein surface
A compact topological surface S, possibly non-orientable and with non-empty
boundary, always admits a Klein surface structure (an atlas whose transition
maps are dianalytic). Its complex cover is, by definition, a compact Riemann
surface M endowed with an anti-holomorphic involution which determines
topologically the original surface S. In this paper, we compare dianalytic
vector bundles over S and holomorphic vector bundles over M, devoting special
attention to the implications that this has for moduli varieties of semistable
vector bundles over M. We construct, starting from S, totally real, totally
geodesic, Lagrangian submanifolds of moduli varieties of semistable vector
bundles of fixed rank and degree over M. This relates the present work to the
constructions of Ho and Liu over non-orientable compact surfaces with empty
boundary (arXiv:math/0605587) .Comment: 19 pages, 1 figur
HandsOff: Labeled Dataset Generation With No Additional Human Annotations
Recent work leverages the expressive power of generative adversarial networks
(GANs) to generate labeled synthetic datasets. These dataset generation methods
often require new annotations of synthetic images, which forces practitioners
to seek out annotators, curate a set of synthetic images, and ensure the
quality of generated labels. We introduce the HandsOff framework, a technique
capable of producing an unlimited number of synthetic images and corresponding
labels after being trained on less than 50 pre-existing labeled images. Our
framework avoids the practical drawbacks of prior work by unifying the field of
GAN inversion with dataset generation. We generate datasets with rich
pixel-wise labels in multiple challenging domains such as faces, cars,
full-body human poses, and urban driving scenes. Our method achieves
state-of-the-art performance in semantic segmentation, keypoint detection, and
depth estimation compared to prior dataset generation approaches and transfer
learning baselines. We additionally showcase its ability to address broad
challenges in model development which stem from fixed, hand-annotated datasets,
such as the long-tail problem in semantic segmentation.Comment: 22 pages, 20 figure
Moduli Spaces for Principal Bundles in Arbitrary Characteristic
In this article, we solve the problem of constructing moduli spaces of
semistable principal bundles (and singular versions of them) over smooth
projective varieties over algebraically closed ground fields of positive
characteristic.Comment: V4: Final version, to appear in Advances in Mathematics, 69p
The curvaton scenario in the MSSM and predictions for non-Gaussianity
We provide a model in which both the inflaton and the curvaton are obtained
from within the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model, with known gauge and
Yukawa interactions. Since now both the inflaton and curvaton fields are
successfully embedded within the same sector, their decay products thermalize
very quickly before the electroweak scale. This results in two important
features of the model: firstly, there will be no residual isocurvature
perturbations, and secondly, observable non-Gaussianities can be generated with
the non-Gaussianity parameter being
determined solely by the combination of weak-scale physics and the Standard
Model Yukawas.Comment: 4 pages, no figure
Absence of ferromagnetism in Co and Mn substituted polycrystalline ZnO
We discuss the properties of semiconducting bulk ZnO when substituted with
the magnetic transition metal ions Mn and Co, with substituent fraction ranging
from = 0.02 to = 0.15. The magnetic properties were measured as a
function of magnetic field and temperature and we find no evidence for magnetic
ordering in these systems down to = 2 K. The magnetization can be fit by
the sum of a Curie-Weiss term with a Weiss temperature of 100 K and
a Curie term. We attribute this behavior to contributions from both \textit{t}M
ions with \textit{t}M nearest neighbors and from isolated spins. This
particular functional form for the susceptibility is used to explain why no
ordering is observed in \textit{t}M substituted ZnO samples despite the large
values of the Weiss temperature. We also discuss in detail the methods we used
to minimize any impurity contributions to the magnetic signal.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures (revised
Phase Diagram Of A Hard-sphere System In A Quenched Random Potential: A Numerical Study
We report numerical results for the phase diagram in the density-disorder
plane of a hard sphere system in the presence of quenched, random, pinning
disorder. Local minima of a discretized version of the Ramakrishnan-Yussouff
free energy functional are located numerically and their relative stability is
studied as a function of the density and the strength of disorder. Regions in
the phase diagram corresponding to liquid, glassy and nearly crystalline states
are mapped out, and the nature of the transitions is determined. The liquid to
glass transition changes from first to second order as the strength of the
disorder is increased. For weak disorder, the system undergoes a first order
crystallization transition as the density is increased. Beyond a critical value
of the disorder strength, this transition is replaced by a continuous glass
transition. Our numerical results are compared with those of analytical work on
the same system. Implications of our results for the field-temperature phase
diagram of type-II superconductors are discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 10 postscript figures (included), submitted to Phys. Rev.
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