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Density Functional Theory Studies of Magnetically Confined Fermi Gas
A theory is developed for magnetically confined Fermi gas at low temperature
based on the density functional theory. The theory is illustrated by numerical
calculation of density distributions of Fermi atoms K with parameters
according to DeMarco and Jin's experiment[Science, 285(1999)1703]. Our results
are in good agreement with the experiment. To check the theory, we also
performed calculations using our theory at high temperature and compared very
well to the result of classical limit.Comment: 6 page
Adversarial Network Bottleneck Features for Noise Robust Speaker Verification
In this paper, we propose a noise robust bottleneck feature representation
which is generated by an adversarial network (AN). The AN includes two cascade
connected networks, an encoding network (EN) and a discriminative network (DN).
Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) of clean and noisy speech are used
as input to the EN and the output of the EN is used as the noise robust
feature. The EN and DN are trained in turn, namely, when training the DN, noise
types are selected as the training labels and when training the EN, all labels
are set as the same, i.e., the clean speech label, which aims to make the AN
features invariant to noise and thus achieve noise robustness. We evaluate the
performance of the proposed feature on a Gaussian Mixture Model-Universal
Background Model based speaker verification system, and make comparison to MFCC
features of speech enhanced by short-time spectral amplitude minimum mean
square error (STSA-MMSE) and deep neural network-based speech enhancement
(DNN-SE) methods. Experimental results on the RSR2015 database show that the
proposed AN bottleneck feature (AN-BN) dramatically outperforms the STSA-MMSE
and DNN-SE based MFCCs for different noise types and signal-to-noise ratios.
Furthermore, the AN-BN feature is able to improve the speaker verification
performance under the clean condition
Coverage Optimal Empirical Likelihood Inference for Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper proposes an empirical likelihood inference method for a general
framework that covers various types of treatment effect parameters in
regression discontinuity designs (RDD) . Our method can be applied for standard
sharp and fuzzy RDDs, RDDs with categorical outcomes, augmented sharp and fuzzy
RDDs with covariates and testing problems that involve multiple RDD treatment
effect parameters. Our method is based on the first-order conditions from local
polynomial fitting and avoids explicit asymptotic variance estimation. We
investigate both firstorder and second-order asymptotic properties and derive
the coverage optimal bandwidth which minimizes the leading term in the coverage
error expansion. In some cases, the coverage optimal bandwidth has a simple
explicit form, which the Wald-type inference method usually lacks. We also find
that Bartlett corrected empirical likelihood inference further improves the
coverage accuracy. Easily implementable coverage optimal bandwidth selector and
Bartlett correction are proposed for practical use. We conduct Monte Carlo
simulations to assess finite-sample performance of our method and also apply it
to two real datasets to illustrate its usefulness
Context-Patch Face Hallucination Based on Thresholding Locality-Constrained Representation and Reproducing Learning
Face hallucination is a technique that reconstruct high-resolution (HR) faces from low-resolution (LR) faces, by using the prior knowledge learned from HR/LR face pairs. Most state-of-the-arts leverage position-patch prior knowledge of human face to estimate the optimal representation coefficients for each image patch. However, they focus only the position information and usually ignore the context information of image patch. In addition, when they are confronted with misalignment or the Small Sample Size (SSS) problem, the hallucination performance is very poor. To this end, this study incorporates the contextual information of image patch and proposes a powerful and efficient context-patch based face hallucination approach, namely Thresholding Locality-constrained Representation and Reproducing learning (TLcR-RL). Under the context-patch based framework, we advance a thresholding based representation method to enhance the reconstruction accuracy and reduce the computational complexity. To further improve the performance of the proposed algorithm, we propose a promotion strategy called reproducing learning. By adding the estimated HR face to the training set, which can simulates the case that the HR version of the input LR face is present in the training set, thus iteratively enhancing the final hallucination result. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed TLcR-RL method achieves a substantial increase in the hallucinated results, both subjectively and objectively. Additionally, the proposed framework is more robust to face misalignment and the SSS problem, and its hallucinated HR face is still very good when the LR test face is from the real-world. The MATLAB source code is available at https://github.com/junjun-jiang/TLcR-RL
LocustDB: a relational database for the transcriptome and biology of the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria)
BACKGROUND: The migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) is an orthopteran pest and a representative member of hemimetabolous insects for biological studies. Its transcriptomic data provide invaluable information for molecular entomology and pave a way for the comparative research of other medically, agronomically, and ecologically relevant insects. We developed the first transcriptomic database of the locust (LocustDB), building necessary infrastructures to integrate, organize, and retrieve data that are either currently available or to be acquired in the future. DESCRIPTION: LocustDB currently hosts 45,474 high-quality EST sequences from the locust, which were assembled into 12,161 unigenes. It, through user-friendly web interfaces, allows investigators to freely access sequence data, including homologous/orthologous sequences, functional annotations, and pathway analysis, based on conserved orthologous groups (COG), gene ontology (GO), protein domain (InterPro), and functional pathways (KEGG). It also provides information from comparative analysis based on data from the migratory locust and five other invertebrate species, including the silkworm, the honeybee, the fruitfly, the mosquito and the nematode. The website address of LocustDB is . CONCLUSION: LocustDB starts with the first transcriptome information for an orthopteran and hemimetabolous insect and will be extended to provide a framework for incorporating in-coming genomic data of relevant insect groups and a workbench for cross-species comparative studies
Inference on Individual Treatment Effects in Nonseparable Triangular Models
In nonseparable triangular models with a binary endogenous treatment and a
binary instrumental variable, Vuong and Xu (2017) show that the individual
treatment effects (ITEs) are identifiable. Feng, Vuong and Xu (2019) show that
a kernel density estimator that uses nonparametrically estimated ITEs as
observations is uniformly consistent for the density of the ITE. In this paper,
we establish the asymptotic normality of the density estimator of Feng, Vuong
and Xu (2019) and show that despite their faster rate of convergence, ITEs'
estimation errors have a non-negligible effect on the asymptotic distribution
of the density estimator. We propose asymptotically valid standard errors for
the density of the ITE that account for estimated ITEs as well as bias
correction. Furthermore, we develop uniform confidence bands for the density of
the ITE using nonparametric or jackknife multiplier bootstrap critical values.
Our uniform confidence bands have correct coverage probabilities asymptotically
with polynomial error rates and can be used for inference on the shape of the
ITE's distribution
Shear viscosity of neutron-rich nucleonic matter near its liquid-gas phase transition
Within a relaxation time approach using free nucleon-nucleon cross sections
modified by the in-medium nucleon masses that are determined from an isospin-
and momentum-dependent effective nucleon-nucleon interaction, we investigate
the specific shear viscosity () of neutron-rich nucleonic matter near
its liquid-gas phase transition. It is found that as the nucleonic matter is
heated at fixed pressure or compressed at fixed temperature, its specific shear
viscosity shows a valley shape in the temperature or density dependence, with
the minimum located at the boundary of the phase transition. Moreover, the
value of drops suddenly at the first-order liquid-gas phase transition
temperature, reaching as low as times the KSS bound of .
However, it varies smoothly for the second-order liquid-gas phase transition.
Effects of the isospin degree of freedom and the nuclear symmetry energy on the
value of are also discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Energy dependence of pion in-medium effects on \pi^-/\pi^+ ratio in heavy-ion collisions
Within the framework of a thermal model with its parameters fitted to the
results from an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (IBUU) transport
model, we study the pion in-medium effect on the charged-pion ratio in
heavy-ion collisions at various energies. We find that due to the cancellation
between the effects from pion-nucleon s-wave and p-wave interactions in nuclear
medium, the \pi^-/\pi^+ ratio generally decreases after including the pion
in-medium effect. The effect is larger at lower collision energies as a result
of narrower pion spectral functions at lower temperatures.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, minor modifications, version to appear
in Physical Review
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