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Non-U.S. Funders of Media Assistance Projects
Examines support for independent media by government agencies, foundations, and multi-national groups outside the U.S. and provides a list of active donors in the field. Explores the effectiveness of media assistance efforts
Ohio State University\u27s Merger: Journalism and Communication
Presents the author\u27s opinion on events surrounding proposed and completed changes in communication research and instruction at Ohio State University, as of September 1995. Implications of reducing resources devoted to communication education, research and service for the university; Key issue facing the School of Journalism; Criteria for evaluating the success of the university
Type I background fields in terms of type IIB ones
We choose such boundary conditions for open IIB superstring theory which
preserve N=1 SUSY. The explicite solution of the boundary conditions yields
effective theory which is symmetric under world-sheet parity transformation
. We recognize effective theory as closed type I
superstring theory. Its background fields,beside known even fields of
the initial IIB theory, contain improvements quadratic in odd ones.Comment: 4 revtex pages, no figure
Strengthening Deterministic Policies for POMDPs
The synthesis problem for partially observable Markov decision processes
(POMDPs) is to compute a policy that satisfies a given specification. Such
policies have to take the full execution history of a POMDP into account,
rendering the problem undecidable in general. A common approach is to use a
limited amount of memory and randomize over potential choices. Yet, this
problem is still NP-hard and often computationally intractable in practice. A
restricted problem is to use neither history nor randomization, yielding
policies that are called stationary and deterministic. Previous approaches to
compute such policies employ mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). We
provide a novel MILP encoding that supports sophisticated specifications in the
form of temporal logic constraints. It is able to handle an arbitrary number of
such specifications. Yet, randomization and memory are often mandatory to
achieve satisfactory policies. First, we extend our encoding to deliver a
restricted class of randomized policies. Second, based on the results of the
original MILP, we employ a preprocessing of the POMDP to encompass memory-based
decisions. The advantages of our approach over state-of-the-art POMDP solvers
lie (1) in the flexibility to strengthen simple deterministic policies without
losing computational tractability and (2) in the ability to enforce the
provable satisfaction of arbitrarily many specifications. The latter point
allows taking trade-offs between performance and safety aspects of typical
POMDP examples into account. We show the effectiveness of our method on a broad
range of benchmarks
Non-thermalization in trapped atomic ion spin chains
Linear arrays of trapped and laser cooled atomic ions are a versatile
platform for studying emergent phenomena in strongly-interacting many-body
systems. Effective spins are encoded in long-lived electronic levels of each
ion and made to interact through laser mediated optical dipole forces. The
advantages of experiments with cold trapped ions, including high spatiotemporal
resolution, decoupling from the external environment, and control over the
system Hamiltonian, are used to measure quantum effects not always accessible
in natural condensed matter samples. In this review we highlight recent work
using trapped ions to explore a variety of non-ergodic phenomena in long-range
interacting spin-models which are heralded by memory of out-of-equilibrium
initial conditions. We observe long-lived memory in static magnetizations for
quenched many-body localization and prethermalization, while memory is
preserved in the periodic oscillations of a driven discrete time crystal state.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, submitted for edition of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
on "Breakdown of ergodicity in quantum systems
Noncommutativity relations in type IIB theory and their supersymmetry
In the present paper we investigate noncommutativity of and -brane
world-volumes embedded in space-time of type IIB superstring theory. Boundary
conditions, which preserve half of the initial supersymmetry, are treated as
canonical constraints. Solving the constraints we obtain original coordinates
in terms of the effective coordinates and momenta. Presence of momenta induces
noncommutativity of string endpoints. We show that noncommutativity relations
are connected by N=1 supersymmetry transformations and noncommutativity
parameters are components of N=1 supermultiplet
Three-Dimensional Supergravity and the Cosmological Constant
Witten has argued that in dimensions local supersymmetry can ensure the
vanishing of the cosmological constant without requiring the equality of bose
and fermi masses. We find that this mechanism is implemented in a novel fashion
in the (2+1)-dimensional supersymmetric abelian Higgs model coupled to
supergravity. The vortex solitons are annihilated by half of the supersymmetry
transformations. The covariantly constant spinors required to define these
supersymmetries exist by virtue of a surprising cancellation between the
Aharonov-Bohm phase and the phase associated with the holonomy of the spin
connection. However the other half of the supersymmetry transformations, whose
actions ordinarily generate the soliton supermultiplet, are not well-defined
and bose-fermi degeneracy is consequently absent in the soliton spectrum.Comment: 12 pages, phyzz
Decline and Fall at the White House
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67262/2/10.1177_009365027700400103.pd
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Subsurface electromagnetic measurement through steel casing
Numerical calculations show that useful information can be obtained in an electromagnetic crosswell survey where one of the wells is cased in steel. Our simple model is based on the assumption of an infinitely long uniform casing embedded in a homogeneous full space. Nevertheless the results indicate that if the pipe characteristics are independently known then the formation signal can be accurately recovered. This is best done at a single frequency where the pipe attenuation is modest. In fact we show that the optimal frequency for formation signal recovery is defined mainly by the pipe parameters and is largely independent of the formation conductivity
Multiplet-Changing Auger Transitions in Valence Double Photoionization
The decay of valence satellite states in neon above the first double-ionization threshold has been studied experimentally and theoretically. Special emphasis was given to differentiate between two decay modes: valence Auger and valence-multiplet Auger decay. It is shown that the latter process is predominant in the low kinetic energy part of the spectrum. The main structures of this low-energy Auger spectrum could be designated by help of calculated transition energies and decay rates
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