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U-health expert system with statistical neural network
Ubiquitous Health(U-Health) system witch focuses on automated applications that can provide healthcare to human anywhere and anytime using wired and wireless mobile technologies is becoming increasingly important. This system consists of a network system to collect data and a sensor module which measures pulse, blood pressure, diabetes, blood sugar, body fat diet with management and measurement of stress etc, by both wired and wireless and further portable mobile connections. In this paper, we propose an expert system using back-propagation to support the diagnosis of citizens in U-Health system
Constructed wetlands: Treatment of concentrated storm water runoff (part A)
The aim of this research was to assess the treatment efficiencies for gully pot liquor of experimental vertical-
flow constructed wetland filters containing Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (common
reed) and filter media of different adsorption capacities. Six out of 12 filters received inflow water spiked
with metals. For 2 years, hydrated nickel and copper nitrate were added to sieved gully pot liquor to simulate
contaminated primary treated storm runoff. For those six constructed wetland filters receiving heavy
metals, an obvious breakthrough of dissolved nickel was recorded after road salting during the first winter.
However, a breakthrough of nickel was not observed, since the inflow pH was raised to eight after
the first year of operation. High pH facilitated the formation of particulate metal compounds such as nickel
hydroxide. During the second year, reduction efficiencies of heavy metal, 5-days at 20°C N-Allylthiourea
biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and suspended solids (SS) improved considerably. Concentrations of
BOD were frequently �20 mg/L. However, concentrations for SS were frequently �30 mg/L. These are
the two international thresholds for secondary wastewater treatment. The BOD removal increased over
time due to biomass maturation, and the increase of pH. An analysis of the findings with case-based reasoning
can be found in the corresponding follow-up paper (Part B)
The surface states of topological insulators - Dirac fermion in curved two dimensional spaces
The surface of a topological insulator is a closed two dimensional manifold.
The surface states are described by the Dirac Hamiltonian in curved two
dimensional spaces. For a slab-like sample with a magnetic field perpendicular
to its top and bottom surfaces, there are chiral states delocalized on the four
side faces. These "chiral sheets" carry both charge and spin currents. In
strong magnetic fields the quantized charge Hall effect (\s_{xy}=(2n+1)e^2/h)
will coexist with spin Hall effect.Comment: PRL accepted version, new information on thickness dependence adde
Top quark longitudinal polarization near the threshold in l+ l- annihilation
We show that the longitudinal polarization of the top quarks produced in the
annihilation of e+ e- or mu+ mu- into tbar t at energies near the threshold is
not affected by the large Coulomb-type corrections, which greatly modify the
total cross section. Thus the longitudinal polarization, although small, may
provide an independent information on the mass and the width of the top quark,
largely independent of the uncertainty in alpha_s.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, no figures, added references, corrected typo
Instanton solutions mediating tunneling between the degenerate vacua in curved space
We investigate the instanton solution between the degenerate vacua in curved
space. We show that there exist -symmetric solutions not only in de
Sitter but also in both flat and anti-de Sitter space. The geometry of the new
type of solutions is finite and preserves the symmetry. The nontrivial
solution corresponding to the tunneling is possible only if gravity is taken
into account. The numerical solutions as well as the analytic computations
using the thin-wall approximation are presented. We expect that these solutions
do not have any negative mode as in the instanton solution.Comment: Some typos are corrected and references are added with respect to the
published version. 17pages, 11fi
Vibrating-chamber levitation systems
Systems are described for the acoustic levitation of objects, which enable the use of a sealed rigid chamber to avoid contamination of the levitated object. The apparatus includes a housing forming a substantially closed chamber, and means for vibrating the entire housing at a frequency that produces an acoustic standing wave pattern within the chamber
Cavity-ligand binding in a simple two-dimensional water model
By means of Monte Carlo computer simulations in the isothermal-isobaric
ensemble, we investigated the interaction of a hydrophobic ligand with the
hydrophobic surfaces of various curvatures (planar, convex and concave). A
simple two-dimensional model of water, hydrophobic ligand and surface was used.
Hydration/dehidration phenomena concerning water molecules confined close to
the molecular surface were investigated. A notable dewetting of the hydrophobic
surfaces was observed together with the reorientation of the water molecules
close to the surface. The hydrogen bonding network was formed to accommodate
cavities next to the surfaces as well as beyond the first hydration shell. The
effects were most strongly pronounced in the case of concave surfaces having
large curvature. This simplified model can be further used to evaluate the
thermodynamic fingerprint of the docking of hydrophobic ligands.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Chiron: A Robust Recommendation System with Graph Regularizer
Recommendation systems have been widely used by commercial service providers
for giving suggestions to users. Collaborative filtering (CF) systems, one of
the most popular recommendation systems, utilize the history of behaviors of
the aggregate user-base to provide individual recommendations and are effective
when almost all users faithfully express their opinions. However, they are
vulnerable to malicious users biasing their inputs in order to change the
overall ratings of a specific group of items. CF systems largely fall into two
categories - neighborhood-based and (matrix) factorization-based - and the
presence of adversarial input can influence recommendations in both categories,
leading to instabilities in estimation and prediction. Although the robustness
of different collaborative filtering algorithms has been extensively studied,
designing an efficient system that is immune to manipulation remains a
significant challenge. In this work we propose a novel "hybrid" recommendation
system with an adaptive graph-based user/item similarity-regularization -
"Chiron". Chiron ties the performance benefits of dimensionality reduction
(through factorization) with the advantage of neighborhood clustering (through
regularization). We demonstrate, using extensive comparative experiments, that
Chiron is resistant to manipulation by large and lethal attacks
Oscillating instanton solutions in curved space
We investigate oscillating instanton solutions of a self-gravitating scalar
field between degenerate vacua. We show that there exist O(4)-symmetric
oscillating solutions in a de Sitter background. The geometry of this solution
is finite and preserves the symmetry. The nontrivial solution
corresponding to tunneling is possible only if the effect of gravity is taken
into account. We present numerical solutions of this instanton, including the
phase diagram of solutions in terms of the parameters of the present work and
the variation of energy densities. Our solutions can be interpreted as
solutions describing an instanton-induced domain wall or braneworld-like object
rather than a kink-induced domain wall or braneworld. The oscillating instanton
solutions have a thick wall and the solutions can be interpreted as a mechanism
providing nucleation of the thick wall for topological inflation. We remark
that invariant solutions also exist in a flat and anti-de Sitter
background, though the physical significance is not clear.Comment: 25 pages, 11 figues. Some typos corrected, references added, and Ch3.
modified according to referee's comment
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