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Forecasting Salinity in the Laguna Madre Using Deep Learning
Salinity is an important metric in the Laguna Madre for establishing the long term health of the local ecological population. By utilizing Deep Learning (DL) techniques, the predicted and forecasted salinity in the Laguna Madre is generated from data provided by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-Aqua satellite.
Currently, only one other DL model has been used to forecast Sea Surface Salinity (SSS), being a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). However, the RNN model requires the prediction of a full area of salinity to function.
As such, several model architectures were tested, with the best one, being a Multi-input MPNN, utilized to evaluate the feasibility of forecasting utilizing simpler DL models. The results show that a one-day forecast is plausible, while three and five-day forecasts would require a data-rich environment, unlike that of the Laguna Madre
Change in the North Atlantic circulation associated with the mid-Pleistocene transition
The southwestern Iberian margin is highly sensitive to changes in the distribution of North Atlantic currents and to the position of oceanic fronts. In this work, the evolution of oceanographic parameters from 812 to 530 ka (MIS20-MIS14) is studied based on the analysis of planktonic foraminifer assemblages from site IODP-U1385 (37 degrees 34.285' N, 10 degrees 7.562' W; 2585m b.s.l.). By comparing the obtained results with published records from other North Atlantic sites between 41 and 55 degrees N, basin-wide paleoceano-graphic conditions are reconstructed. Variations of assemblages dwelling in different water masses indicate a major change in the general North Atlantic circulation during MIS16, coinciding with the definite establishment of the 100 ky cyclicity associated with the mid-Pleistocene transition. At the surface, this change consisted in the redistribution of water masses, with the subsequent thermal variation, and occurred linked to the northwestward migration of the Arctic Front (AF), and the increase in the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation with respect to previous glacials. During glacials prior to MIS16, the NADW formation was very weak, which drastically slowed down the surface circulation; the AF was at a southerly position and the North Atlantic Current (NAC) diverted southeastwards, developing steep south-north, and east-west, thermal gradients and blocking the arrival of warm water, with associated moisture, to high latitudes. During MIS16, the increase in the meridional overturning circulation, in combination with the northwestward AF shift, allowed the arrival of the NAC to subpolar latitudes, multiplying the moisture availability for ice-sheet growth, which could have worked as a positive feedback to prolong the glacials towards 100 ky cycles.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Routine pre-treatment MRI for breast cancer in a single-payer medical center: Effects on surgical choices, timing and outcomes
Monte Carlo approach to nonperturbative strings -- demonstration in noncritical string theory
We show how Monte Carlo approach can be used to study the double scaling
limit in matrix models. As an example, we study a solvable hermitian one-matrix
model with the double-well potential, which has been identified recently as a
dual description of noncritical string theory with worldsheet supersymmetry.
This identification utilizes the nonperturbatively stable vacuum unlike its
bosonic counterparts, and therefore it provides a complete constructive
formulation of string theory. Our data with the matrix size ranging from 8 to
512 show a clear scaling behavior, which enables us to extract the double
scaling limit accurately. The ``specific heat'' obtained in this way agrees
nicely with the known result obtained by solving the Painleve-II equation with
appropriate boundary conditions.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, LaTeX, JHEP3.cls; references added, typos
correcte
Exploring the Design Space for Body Transformation Wearables to Support Physical Activity through Sensitizing and Bodystorming
Negative or disturbed body perceptions are often interwoven with people's physical inactivity. While wearables can support body perception changes (body transformation), the design space of body transformation wearables supporting physical activity remains narrow. To expand this design space, we conducted an embodied co-design workshop with users. Using conceptual and tangible sensitizing tools, we explored/reflected on bodily sensations at three moments of movement execution (before/during/after). Conceptual tools were used to evoke/reflect/capture past lived experiences, while tangible tools were used as ideation probes for sensory bodystorming. Two design concepts emerged, reflecting diverging approaches to body transformation wearables: one focused on reminders and movement correction; the other on sensory augmentation and facilitation. We reflect on how each facilitates useful representations of body sensations during movement, and present methodological recommendations for designing technology for sensory augmentation in this area. Finally, we propose a preliminary prototype based on our design concepts and discuss future steps
Influence of Light and Heavy Thresholds on SUSY Unification
In this paper we study and compare susy unification using two different
approaches in order to take into account the effect of light particle
thresholds on the evolution of gauge couplings: the step--function
approximation, on the one hand, and a mass dependent procedure, which gives a
more accurate description of the dependence of the results on the masses, on
the other. We also include the effect of heavy thresholds, when is
chosen as the unifying group. We find that the mass--dependent procedure
excludes scenarios where all susy masses are below , and favors a value
of near its upper experimental bound, contrary to the results
obtained with the step--function approximation. We underline the dependence of
the results on the procedure chosen to deal with light thresholds.Comment: 18 pages,LAEFF-93/014,REVTEX-2.1, 5 figures not included, available
upon request (include FAX number)
Fuzzy Scalar Field Theory as a Multitrace Matrix Model
We develop an analytical approach to scalar field theory on the fuzzy sphere
based on considering a perturbative expansion of the kinetic term. This
expansion allows us to integrate out the angular degrees of freedom in the
hermitian matrices encoding the scalar field. The remaining model depends only
on the eigenvalues of the matrices and corresponds to a multitrace hermitian
matrix model. Such a model can be solved by standard techniques as e.g. the
saddle-point approximation. We evaluate the perturbative expansion up to second
order and present the one-cut solution of the saddle-point approximation in the
large N limit. We apply our approach to a model which has been proposed as an
appropriate regularization of scalar field theory on the plane within the
framework of fuzzy geometry.Comment: 1+25 pages, replaced with published version, minor improvement
Matrix Elements of Twist-2 Operators in Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory
We compute the leading non-analytic quark mass dependence of the matrix
elements of isovector twist-2 operators between octet baryon states in quenched
QCD using quenched chiral perturbation theory. There are contributions of the
form m_q log m_q, in analogy with QCD, but there are also contributions of the
form log m_q from hairpin interactions. The nucleon does not receive such
hairpin contributions.Comment: 16 pages, 5 eps figs., late
Noncommutative vector bundles over fuzzy CP^N and their covariant derivatives
We generalise the construction of fuzzy CP^N in a manner that allows us to
access all noncommutative equivariant complex vector bundles over this space.
We give a simplified construction of polarization tensors on S^2 that
generalizes to complex projective space, identify Laplacians and natural
noncommutative covariant derivative operators that map between the modules that
describe noncommuative sections. In the process we find a natural
generalization of the Schwinger-Jordan construction to su(n) and identify
composite oscillators that obey a Heisenberg algebra on an appropriate Fock
space.Comment: 34 pages, v2 contains minor corrections to the published versio
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