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Computer Modeling of Personal Autonomy and Legal Equilibrium
Empirical studies of personal autonomy as state and status of individual
freedom, security, and capacity to control own life, particularly by
independent legal reasoning, are need dependable models and methods of precise
computation. Three simple models of personal autonomy are proposed. The linear
model of personal autonomy displays a relation between freedom as an amount of
agent's action and responsibility as an amount of legal reaction and shows
legal equilibrium, the balance of rights and duties needed for sustainable
development of any community. The model algorithm of judge personal autonomy
shows that judicial decision making can be partly automated, like other human
jobs. Model machine learning of autonomous lawyer robot under operating system
constitution illustrates the idea of robot rights. Robots, i.e. material and
virtual mechanisms serving the people, deserve some legal guarantees of their
rights such as robot rights to exist, proper function and be protected by the
law. Robots, actually, are protected as any human property by the wide scope of
laws, starting with Article 17 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but
the current level of human trust in autonomous devices and their role in
contemporary society needs stronger legislation to guarantee the robot rights.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, presented at Computer Science On-line Conference
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Computing Nearly Singular Solutions Using Pseudo-Spectral Methods
In this paper, we investigate the performance of pseudo-spectral methods in
computing nearly singular solutions of fluid dynamics equations. We consider
two different ways of removing the aliasing errors in a pseudo-spectral method.
The first one is the traditional 2/3 dealiasing rule. The second one is a high
(36th) order Fourier smoothing which keeps a significant portion of the Fourier
modes beyond the 2/3 cut-off point in the Fourier spectrum for the 2/3
dealiasing method. Both the 1D Burgers equation and the 3D incompressible Euler
equations are considered. We demonstrate that the pseudo-spectral method with
the high order Fourier smoothing gives a much better performance than the
pseudo-spectral method with the 2/3 dealiasing rule. Moreover, we show that the
high order Fourier smoothing method captures about more effective
Fourier modes in each dimension than the 2/3 dealiasing method. For the 3D
Euler equations, the gain in the effective Fourier codes for the high order
Fourier smoothing method can be as large as 20% over the 2/3 dealiasing method.
Another interesting observation is that the error produced by the high order
Fourier smoothing method is highly localized near the region where the solution
is most singular, while the 2/3 dealiasing method tends to produce oscillations
in the entire domain. The high order Fourier smoothing method is also found be
very stable dynamically. No high frequency instability has been observed.Comment: 26 pages, 23 figure
Origin of superconductivity in nominally "undoped" T'-LaYCuO films
We have systematically studied the transport properties of the
LaYCuO(LYCO) films of T'-phase (). In
this nominally "undoped" system, superconductivity was acquired in certain Y
doping range (). Measurements of resistivity, Hall
coefficients in normal states and resistive critical field ()in
superconducting states of the T'-LYCO films show the similar behavior as the
known Ce-doped n-type cuprate superconductors, indicating the intrinsic
electron-doping nature. The charge carriers are induced by oxygen deficiency.
Non-superconducting Y-doped Pr- or Nd-based T'-phase cuprate films were also
investigated for comparison, suggesting the crucial role of the radii of A-site
cations in the origin of superconductivity in the nominally "undoped" cuptates.
Based on a reasonable scenario in the microscopic reduction process, we put
forward a self-consistent interpretation of these experimental observations.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
Errors in kinematic distances and our image of the Milky Way Galaxy
Errors in the kinematic distances, under the assumption of circular gas
orbits, were estimated by performing synthetic observations of a model disk
galaxy. It was found that the error is < 0.5 kpc for most of the disk when the
measured rotation curve was used, but larger if the real rotation curve is
applied. In both cases, the error is significantly larger at the positions of
the spiral arms. The error structure is such that, when kinematic distances are
used to develope a picture of the large scale density distribution, the most
significant features of the numerical model are significantly distorted or
absent, while spurious structure appears. By considering the full velocity
field in the calculation of the kinematic distances, most of the original
density structures can be recovered.Comment: Accepted for publication in A
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