122 research outputs found
Evolution of Conversations in the Age of Email Overload
Email is a ubiquitous communications tool in the workplace and plays an
important role in social interactions. Previous studies of email were largely
based on surveys and limited to relatively small populations of email users
within organizations. In this paper, we report results of a large-scale study
of more than 2 million users exchanging 16 billion emails over several months.
We quantitatively characterize the replying behavior in conversations within
pairs of users. In particular, we study the time it takes the user to reply to
a received message and the length of the reply sent. We consider a variety of
factors that affect the reply time and length, such as the stage of the
conversation, user demographics, and use of portable devices. In addition, we
study how increasing load affects emailing behavior. We find that as users
receive more email messages in a day, they reply to a smaller fraction of them,
using shorter replies. However, their responsiveness remains intact, and they
may even reply to emails faster. Finally, we predict the time to reply, length
of reply, and whether the reply ends a conversation. We demonstrate
considerable improvement over the baseline in all three prediction tasks,
showing the significant role that the factors that we uncover play, in
determining replying behavior. We rank these factors based on their predictive
power. Our findings have important implications for understanding human
behavior and designing better email management applications for tasks like
ranking unread emails.Comment: 11 page, 24th International World Wide Web Conferenc
Spin content of constituent quarks and one-spin asymmetries in inclusive processes
We consider mechanism for one-spin asymmetries observed in inclusive hadron
production. The main role belongs to the orbital angular momentum of the
quark-antiquark cloud in the internal structure of constituent quarks. We argue
that the origin of the asymmetries in pion production is a result of retaining
of this internal angular orbital momentum by the perturbative phase of QCD
under transition from the non-perturbative phase. The non-perturbative hadron
structure is based on the results of chiral quark models. PACS number(s):
11.30.Qc, 12.40.Pp, 13.75.Ni, 13.88.+eComment: 21 pages LaTeX + 8 figures (not included
Spatial and Temporal Hadron Correlators below and above the Chiral Phase Transition
Hadronic correlation functions at finite temperature in QCD, with four
flavours of dynamical quarks, have been analyzed both above and below the
chiral symmetry restoration temperature. We have used both point and extended
sources for spatial as well as temporal correlators. The effect of periodic
temporal boundary conditions for the valence quarks on the spatial meson
correlators has also been investigated. All our results are consistent with the
existence of individual quarks at high temperatures. A measurement of the
residual interaction between the quarks is presented.Comment: 19 pages HLRZ 54/93, BI-TP 93/76, TIFR/TH/94-1
ClaimChain: Improving the Security and Privacy of In-band Key Distribution for Messaging
The social demand for email end-to-end encryption is barely supported by
mainstream service providers. Autocrypt is a new community-driven open
specification for e-mail encryption that attempts to respond to this demand. In
Autocrypt the encryption keys are attached directly to messages, and thus the
encryption can be implemented by email clients without any collaboration of the
providers. The decentralized nature of this in-band key distribution, however,
makes it prone to man-in-the-middle attacks and can leak the social graph of
users. To address this problem we introduce ClaimChain, a cryptographic
construction for privacy-preserving authentication of public keys. Users store
claims about their identities and keys, as well as their beliefs about others,
in ClaimChains. These chains form authenticated decentralized repositories that
enable users to prove the authenticity of both their keys and the keys of their
contacts. ClaimChains are encrypted, and therefore protect the stored
information, such as keys and contact identities, from prying eyes. At the same
time, ClaimChain implements mechanisms to provide strong non-equivocation
properties, discouraging malicious actors from distributing conflicting or
inauthentic claims. We implemented ClaimChain and we show that it offers
reasonable performance, low overhead, and authenticity guarantees.Comment: Appears in 2018 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
(WPES'18
Vector Mesons on the Light Front
We apply the light-front quantization to the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with
the vector interaction, and compute vector meson's mass and light-cone
wavefunction in the large N limit. Following the same procedure as in the
previous analyses for scalar and pseudo-scalar mesons, we derive the
bound-state equations of a q-qbar system in the vector channel. We include the
lowest order effects of the vector interaction. The resulting transverse and
longitudinal components of the bound-state equation look different from each
other. But eventually after imposing an appropriate cutoff, one finds these two
are identical, giving the same mass and the same (spin-independent) light-cone
wavefunction. Mass of the vector meson decreases as one increases the strength
of the vector interaction.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, discussion on the cutoff scheme changed, Fig.3
replaced, and one reference adde
Consistency in Regularizations of the Gauged NJL Model at One Loop Level
In this work we revisit questions recently raised in the literature
associated to relevant but divergent amplitudes in the gauged NJL model. The
questions raised involve ambiguities and symmetry violations which concern the
model's predictive power at one loop level. Our study shows by means of an
alternative prescription to handle divergent amplitudes, that it is possible to
obtain unambiguous and symmetry preserving amplitudes. The procedure adopted
makes use solely of {\it general} properties of an eventual regulator, thus
avoiding an explicit form. We find, after a thorough analysis of the problem
that there are well established conditions to be fulfiled by any consistent
regularization prescription in order to avoid the problems of concern at one
loop level.Comment: 22 pages, no figures, LaTeX, to appear in Phys.Rev.
Two- and Three-Point Functions in the Extended NJL Model
The two-point functions in generalized Nambu--Jona-Lasinio models are
calculated to all orders in momenta and quark masses to leading order in
. The use of Ward identities and the heat-kernel expansion allows for a
large degree of regularization independence. We also show how this approach
works to the same order for three-point functions on the example of the
vector-pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar three-point function. The inclusion of the
chiral anomaly effects at this level is shown by calculating the
pseudoscalar-vector-vector three-point function to the same order. Finally we
comment on how (vector-)meson-dominance comes out in the presence of explicit
chiral symmetry breaking in both the anomalous and the non-anomalous sectors.Comment: Latex, 42 pages, 3 latex figures, 7 postscript figures included,
NORDITA 94/11 N,P. Improvement in the regularization procedure for the PVV
three point functio
Meson loop effects in the NJL model at zero and non-zero temperature
We compare two different possibilities to include meson-loop corrections in
the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model: a strict 1/N_c-expansion in next-to-leading order
and a non-perturbative scheme corresponding to a one-meson-loop approximation
to the effective action. Both schemes are consistent with chiral symmetry, in
particular with the Goldstone theorem and the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation.
The numerical part at zero temperature focuses on the pion and the rho-meson
sector. For the latter the meson-loop-corrections are crucial in order to
include the dominant rho -> pipi-decay channel, while the standard Hartree +
RPA approximation only contains unphysical qqbar-decay channels. We find that
m_\pi, f_\pi, and quantities related to the rho-meson self-energy can
be described reasonably with one parameter set in the 1/N_c-expansion scheme,
whereas we did not succeed to obtain such a fit in the non-perturbative scheme.
We also investigate the temperature dependence of the quark condensate. Here we
find consistency with chiral perturbation theory to lowest order. Similarities
and differences of both schemes are discussed.Comment: 51 pages, 18 figures, to be published in Physics of Atomic Nuclei,
the volume dedicated to the 90th birthday of A.B. Migdal, error in Eq. 4.22
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Low--Energy Behavior of Two--Point Functions of Quark Currents
We discuss vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar two-point functions
at low and intermediate energies. We first review what is known from chiral
perturbation theory, as well as from a heat kernel expansion within the context
of the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (ENJL) model of ref. \cite{12}. In this work
we derive then these two-point functions to all orders in the momenta and to
leading order in . We find an improved high-energy behaviour and a
general way of parametrizing them that shows relations between some of the
two-point functions, which are also valid in the presence of gluonic
interactions. The similarity between the shape of the experimentally known
spectral functions and the ones we derive, is greatly improved with respect to
those predicted by the usual constituent quark like models. We also obtain the
scalar mass independent of the regularization scheme. In the end,
we calculate fully an example of a nonleptonic matrix element in the
ENJL--model, the electromagnetic mass difference and find good
agreement with the measured value.Comment: 37 pages + 6 uuencoded figures, CERN TH 6924/93, CPT-93/P.2917,
NORDITA 93/43-N,
On asymmetry in inclusive pion production
On the basis of the mechanism proposed for one-spin asymmetries in inclusive
hadron production we specify an --dependence of asymmetries in inclusive
processes of pion production. The main role in generation of this asymmetry
belongs to the orbital angular momentum ofquark-antiquark cloud in internal
structure of constituent quarks. The --dependence of asymmetries in the
charged pion production at large reflects the corresponding dependence of
constituent quark polarization in the polarized proton.Comment: LaTeX, 8 pages, 3 figures. One figure added, as it appears in Phys.
Rev.
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