24 research outputs found
Similarity Measures for Enhancing Interactive Streamline Seeding
Streamline seeding rakes are widely used in vector field visualization. We present new approaches for calculating similarity between integral curves (streamlines and pathlines). While others have used similarity distance measures, the computational expense involved with existing techniques is relatively high due to the vast number of euclidean distance tests, restricting interactivity and their use for streamline seeding rakes. We introduce the novel idea of computing streamline signatures based on a set of curve-based attributes. A signature produces a compact representation for describing a streamline. Similarity comparisons are performed by using a popular statistical measure on the derived signatures. We demonstrate that this novel scheme, including a hierarchical variant, produces good clustering results and is computed over two orders of magnitude faster than previous methods. Similarity-based clustering enables filtering of the streamlines to provide a nonuniform seeding distribution along the seeding object. We show that this method preserves the overall flow behavior while using only a small subset of the original streamline set. We apply focus + context rendering using the clusters which allows for faster and easier analysis in cases of high visual complexity and occlusion. The method provides a high level of interactivity and allows the user to easily fine tune the clustering results at runtime while avoiding any time-consuming recomputation. Our method maintains interactive rates even when hundreds of streamlines are used
The Vehicle, Fall 2006
Table of Contents
Ferris WheelEmily Daviscover
HerStephen Jefferiespage 1
UntitledBob Freyderpage 2
Writing at O\u27BrienWillie Joseph Morrispage 3
Blanks and HabitsRebecca M. Griffithpage 4
Soldier\u27s NightmareCraig A. Dennispage 5
UntitledLindsey Durbinpage 6
A Slow, Painless DeathJacob Fosterpage 7
ThoughtAmanda Yealepage 8
The SociopathBob Freyderpage 9
EasyRebecca M. Griffithpage 10
My PartnerDiedre Mapespage 11
BarriersSuzanne Krahnpage 12
The mind is a prisonJordan Hohespage 13
We Were Shirtless When Thousands DiedMitch Jamespage 14
ComplaintAmanda Yealepage 15
UntitledBob Freyderpage 16
MarkedAmanda Yealepage 17
She Wears Red Lipstick, He, Heartsick EyesRebecca M. Griffithpage 18
PrayerAmanda Yealepage 19
HomeDeej Rolewskipage 20
Your DreamDiedre Mapespage 21
Even Fingers Get LonelySuzanne Krahnpage 22
AggressivityMitch Jamespage 23
FallenMitch Jamespage 24
CollapseMario Podeschipage 36
The Italian CrisisAndy Masterspage 41
About the Authorshttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1084/thumbnail.jp
The Vehicle, Fall 2006
Table of Contents
Ferris WheelEmily Daviscover
HerStephen Jefferiespage 1
UntitledBob Freyderpage 2
Writing at O\u27BrienWillie Joseph Morrispage 3
Blanks and HabitsRebecca M. Griffithpage 4
Soldier\u27s NightmareCraig A. Dennispage 5
UntitledLindsey Durbinpage 6
A Slow, Painless DeathJacob Fosterpage 7
ThoughtAmanda Yealepage 8
The SociopathBob Freyderpage 9
EasyRebecca M. Griffithpage 10
My PartnerDiedre Mapespage 11
BarriersSuzanne Krahnpage 12
The mind is a prisonJordan Hohespage 13
We Were Shirtless When Thousands DiedMitch Jamespage 14
ComplaintAmanda Yealepage 15
UntitledBob Freyderpage 16
MarkedAmanda Yealepage 17
She Wears Red Lipstick, He, Heartsick EyesRebecca M. Griffithpage 18
PrayerAmanda Yealepage 19
HomeDeej Rolewskipage 20
Your DreamDiedre Mapespage 21
Even Fingers Get LonelySuzanne Krahnpage 22
AggressivityMitch Jamespage 23
FallenMitch Jamespage 24
CollapseMario Podeschipage 36
The Italian CrisisAndy Masterspage 41
About the Authorshttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1084/thumbnail.jp
The Naturalized Gender Order Of Rock and Roll
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66933/2/10.1177_019685999501900104.pd
Too Big to Fail â U.S. Banksâ Regulatory Alchemy: Converting an Obscure Agency Footnote into an âAt Willâ Nullification of Dodd-Frankâs Regulation of the Multi-Trillion Dollar Financial Swaps Market
The multi-trillion-dollar market for, what was at that time wholly unregulated, over-the-counter derivatives (âswapsâ) is widely viewed as a principal cause of the 2008 worldwide financial meltdown. The Dodd-Frank Act, signed into law on July 21, 2010, was expressly considered by Congress to be a remedy for this troublesome deregulatory problem. The legislation required the swaps market to comply with a host of business conduct and anti-competitive protections, including that the swaps market be fully transparent to U.S. financial regulators, collateralized, and capitalized. The statute also expressly provides that it would cover foreign subsidiaries of big U.S. financial institutions if their swaps trading could adversely impact the U.S. economy or represent the use of extraterritorial trades as an attempt to âevadeâ Dodd-Frank. In July 2013, the CFTC promulgated an 80-page, triple-columned, and single-spaced âguidanceâ implementing Dodd-Frankâs extraterritorial reach, i.e., that manner in which Dodd-Frank would apply to swaps transactions executed outside the United States. The key point of that guidance was that swaps trading within the âguaranteedâ foreign subsidiaries of U.S. bank holding company swaps dealers were subject to all of Dodd-Frankâs swaps regulations wherever in the world those subsidiariesâ swaps were executed. At that time, the standardized industry swaps agreement contemplated that, inter alia, U.S. bank holding company swaps dealersâ foreign subsidiaries would be âguaranteedâ by their corporate parent, as was true since 1992. In August 2013, without notifying the CFTC, the principal U.S. bank holding company swaps dealer trade association privately circulated to its members standard contractual language that would, for the first time, âdeguaranteeâ their foreign subsidiaries. By relying only on the obscure footnote 563 of the CFTC guidanceâs 662 footnotes, the trade association assured its swaps dealer members that the newly deguaranteed foreign subsidiaries could (if they so chose) no longer be subject to Dodd-Frank. As a result, it has been reported (and it also has been understood by many experts within the swaps industry) that a substantial portion of the U.S. swaps market has shifted from the large U.S. bank holding companies swaps dealers and their U.S. affiliates to their newly deguaranteed âforeignâ subsidiaries, with the attendant claim by these huge big U.S. bank swaps dealers that Dodd-Frank swaps regulation would not apply to these transactions. The CFTC also soon discovered that these huge U.S. bank holding company swaps dealers were âarranging, negotiating, and executingâ (âANEâ) these swaps in the United States with U.S. bank personnel and, only after execution in the U.S., were these swaps formally âassignedâ to the U.S. banksâ newly âdeguaranteedâ foreign subsidiaries with the accompanying claim that these swaps, even though executed in the U.S., were not covered by Dodd-Frank. In October 2016, the CFTC proposed a rule that would have closed the âdeguaranteeâ and âANEâ loopholes completely. However, because it usually takes at least a year to finalize a âproposedâ rule, this proposed rule closing the loopholes in question was not finalized prior to the inauguration of President Trump. All indications are that it will never be finalized during a Trump Administration. Thus, in the shadow of the recent tenth anniversary of the Lehman failure, there is an understanding among many market regulators and swaps trading experts that large portions of the swaps market have moved from U.S. bank holding company swaps dealers and their U.S. affiliates to their newly deguaranteed foreign affiliates where Dodd- Frank swaps regulation is not being followed. However, what has not moved abroad is the very real obligation of the lender of last resort to rescue these U.S. swaps dealer bank holding companies if they fail because of poorly regulated swaps in their deguaranteed foreign subsidiaries, i.e., the U.S. taxpayer. While relief is unlikely to be forthcoming from the Trump Administration or the Republican-controlled Senate, some other means will have to be found to avert another multi-trillion-dollar bank bailout and/or a financial calamity caused by poorly regulated swaps on the books of big U.S. banks. This paper notes that the relevant statutory framework affords state attorneys general and state financial regulators the right to bring so-called âparens patriaeâ actions in federal district court to enforce, inter alia, Dodd- Frank on behalf of a stateâs citizens. That kind of litigation to enforce the statuteâs extraterritorial provisions is now badly needed
TOI-836 : a super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf
Funding: TGW, ACC, and KH acknowledge support from STFC consolidated grant numbers ST/R000824/1 and ST/V000861/1, and UKSA grant ST/R003203/1.We present the discovery of two exoplanets transiting TOI-836 (TIC 440887364) using data from TESS Sector 11 and Sector 38. TOI-836 is a bright (T = 8.5 mag), high proper motion (âŒ200 mas yrâ1), low metallicity ([Fe/H]ââ0.28) K-dwarf with a mass of 0.68 ± 0.05 Mâ and a radius of 0.67 ± 0.01 Râ. We obtain photometric follow-up observations with a variety of facilities, and we use these data-sets to determine that the inner planet, TOI-836 b, is a 1.70 ± 0.07 Râ super-Earth in a 3.82 day orbit, placing it directly within the so-called âradius valleyâ. The outer planet, TOI-836 c, is a 2.59 ± 0.09 Râ mini-Neptune in an 8.60 day orbit. Radial velocity measurements reveal that TOI-836 b has a mass of 4.5 ± 0.9 Mâ, while TOI-836 c has a mass of 9.6 ± 2.6 Mâ. Photometric observations show Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) on the order of 20 minutes for TOI-836 c, although there are no detectable TTVs for TOI-836 b. The TTVs of planet TOI-836 c may be caused by an undetected exterior planet.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
TOI-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf
We present the discovery of two exoplanets transiting TOI-836 (TIC 440887364)
using data from TESS Sector 11 and Sector 38. TOI-836 is a bright (
mag), high proper motion ( mas yr), low metallicity
([Fe/H]) K-dwarf with a mass of M and a
radius of R. We obtain photometric follow-up
observations with a variety of facilities, and we use these data-sets to
determine that the inner planet, TOI-836 b, is a R
super-Earth in a 3.82 day orbit, placing it directly within the so-called
'radius valley'. The outer planet, TOI-836 c, is a R
mini-Neptune in an 8.60 day orbit. Radial velocity measurements reveal that
TOI-836 b has a mass of M , while TOI-836 c has a mass
of M. Photometric observations show Transit Timing
Variations (TTVs) on the order of 20 minutes for TOI-836 c, although there are
no detectable TTVs for TOI-836 b. The TTVs of planet TOI-836 c may be caused by
an undetected exterior planet