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On vanishing sums of th roots of unity in finite fields
In an earlier work, the authors have determined all possible weights for
which there exists a vanishing sum of th roots
of unity in characteristic 0. In this paper, the same problem is
studied in finite fields of characteristic . For given and , results
are obtained on integers such that all integers are in the
``weight set'' . The main result in this paper guarantees,
under suitable conditions, the existence of solutions of
with all coordinates not equal to zero over a finite field
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Using infrared thermography for monitoring thermal efficiency of buildings - case studies from Nottingham Trent University
Global warming and the continuous increase of energy cost are driving the need for reducing energy consumption. Buildings are responsible for approximately 50% of the UK energy consumption. Major part of this consumption is for heating and air conditioning of buildings. Nottingham Trent University is a leading university in the UK in relation to improving the performance of its buildings in order to improve insulation and energy consumption. The experimental case studies presented in this paper highlights some of the new measures taken to reduce energy consumption and enhance the sustainability of the University buildings. Infrared thermography is used to evaluate insulation measures and energy performance. The results indicate that enhanced insulation combined with modern sustainable technologies can significantly reduce energy consumption
Real time demonstration of high bitrate quantum random number generation with coherent laser light
We present a random number generation scheme that uses broadband measurements
of the vacuum field contained in the radio-frequency sidebands of a single-mode
laser. Even though the measurements may contain technical noise, we show that
suitable algorithms can transform the digitized photocurrents into a string of
random numbers that can be made arbitrarily correlated with a subset of the
quantum fluctuations (high quantum correlation regime) or arbitrarily immune to
environmental fluctuations (high environmental immunity). We demonstrate up to
2 Gbps of real time random number generation that were verified using standard
randomness tests
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