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Objectivist reductionism
A survey of arguments for and against the view that colors are physical properties
Flexible format, computer accessed telemetry system
With this system, it is possible to sample and generate two or more simultaneous formats; one can be transmitted to ground station in real time, and other is stored for later transmission. Sensor output comparison data, plus information to control format, compression algorithm, and allowable degree of sensor activity, are stored in memory
Data multiplexer using a tree switch
Self-decoding FET-hybrid or integrated-circuit tree configuration uses minimum number of components and can be sequenced by clock or computer. Redundancy features can readily be incorporated into tree configuration; as tree grows in size and more sensors are included, percentage of parts that will affect given percentage of sensors steadily decreases
Cosmology with the lights off: Standard sirens in the Einstein Telescope era
We explore the prospects for constraining cosmology using gravitational-wave
(GW) observations of neutron-star binaries by the proposed Einstein Telescope
(ET), exploiting the narrowness of the neutron-star mass function. Double
neutron-star (DNS) binaries are expected to be one of the first sources
detected after "first-light" of Advanced LIGO and are expected to be detected
at a rate of a few tens per year in the advanced era. However the proposed ET
could catalog tens of thousands per year. Combining the measured source
redshift distributions with GW-network distance determinations will permit not
only the precision measurement of background cosmological parameters, but will
provide an insight into the astrophysical properties of these DNS systems. Of
particular interest will be to probe the distribution of delay times between
DNS-binary creation and subsequent merger, as well as the evolution of the
star-formation rate density within ET's detection horizon. Keeping H_0,
\Omega_{m,0} and \Omega_{\Lambda,0} fixed and investigating the precision with
which the dark-energy equation-of-state parameters could be recovered, we found
that with 10^5 detected DNS binaries we could constrain these parameters to an
accuracy similar to forecasted constraints from future CMB+BAO+SNIa
measurements. Furthermore, modeling the merger delay-time distribution as a
power-law, and the star-formation rate (SFR) density as a parametrized version
of the Porciani and Madau SF2 model, we find that the associated astrophysical
parameters are constrained to within ~ 10%. All parameter precisions scaled as
1/sqrt(N), where N is the number of cataloged detections. We also investigated
how precisions varied with the intrinsic underlying properties of the Universe
and with the distance reach of the network (which may be affected by the
low-frequency cutoff of the detector).Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables. Minor changes to reflect published
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A linear theory for control of non-linear stochastic systems
We address the role of noise and the issue of efficient computation in
stochastic optimal control problems. We consider a class of non-linear control
problems that can be formulated as a path integral and where the noise plays
the role of temperature. The path integral displays symmetry breaking and there
exist a critical noise value that separates regimes where optimal control
yields qualitatively different solutions. The path integral can be computed
efficiently by Monte Carlo integration or by Laplace approximation, and can
therefore be used to solve high dimensional stochastic control problems.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to PR
Centros de acceso público a las tecnologÃas de información y comunicación en América Latina: caracterÃsticas y desafÃos
Incluye BibliografÃaEl objetivo principal del presente estudio, fue identificar y caracterizar el mayor número posible de programas de Centros de Acceso Público a las TecnologÃas de la Información y Comunicación (CAPT), existentes en los paÃses seleccionados para el estudio. El resultado del mismo es un mapeo que debe ser entendido como una primera aproximación a la situación actual. En este sentido, el levantamiento no proclama ser exhaustivo, ni completo, o estadÃsticamente representativo, sino un primer paso en un terreno todavÃa bastante desconocido, pero de crucial importancia para el desarrollo de las Sociedades de la Información en América Latina (AL). No obstante, cabe mencionar que, de acuerdo con la literatura revisada, este estudio es el más extenso y profundo sobre esta temática realizado en la región hasta la fecha. En el marco del estudio, se realizaron un total de 70 entrevistas válidas a responsables de los programas CAPT existentes en la región, en un total de 13 paÃses. La información coleccionada a través de este mecanismo esta definida como fuente primaria (FP). Adicionalmente se recabó información secundaria sobre 151 programas CAPT adicionales (fuente secundaria FS). El estudio está dividido en dos partes: la primera parte muestra los resultados cuantitativos sobre el fenómeno de los CAPT en 14 paÃses de la región de América Latina. Brasil fue incluido en la muestra del estudio, aunque solo se pudo obtener información secundaria. La segunda parte presenta los análisis cualitativos realizados por los investigadores responsables de la realización de las entrevistas. Los resultados de la primera parte muestran como el fenómeno de los CAPT presenta una evolución creciente y con altas perspectivas de sostenibilidad en el tiempo. El estudio, permite tener un primer acercamiento a la realidad de los CAPT a través del análisis del centro promedio y formular algunas recomendaciones que contribuyan al mejoramiento de este tipo de iniciativas. De acuerdo con datos anteriormente disponibles (ver por ejemplo CEPAL, 2005) se estimaba que en 2004 el número de CAPT gubernamentales oscilaba entre 6.000 y 10.000 en toda América Latina. Los resultados obtenidos mediante investigaciones primarias y secundarias de este nuevo sondeo, indican que para el año 2005 el número total de CAPT, tanto gubernamentales como privados, ascendÃan a 139.064 y se prevee que este número se incremente en años sucesivos
Imaging the Cosmic Matter Distribution using Gravitational Lensing of Pregalactic HI
21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic
reionisation is gravitationally lensed by material at all lower redshifts.
Low-frequency radio observations of this emission can be used to reconstruct
the projected mass distribution of foreground material, both light and dark. We
compare the potential imaging capabilities of such 21-cm lensing with those of
future galaxy lensing surveys. We use the Millennium Simulation to simulate
large-area maps of the lensing convergence with the noise, resolution and
redshift-weighting achievable with a variety of idealised observation
programmes. We find that the signal-to-noise of 21-cm lens maps can far exceed
that of any map made using galaxy lensing. If the irreducible noise limit can
be reached with a sufficiently large radio telescope, the projected convergence
map provides a high-fidelity image of the true matter distribution, allowing
the dark matter halos of individual galaxies to be viewed directly, and giving
a wealth of statistical and morphological information about the relative
distributions of mass and light. For instrumental designs like that planned for
the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), high-fidelity mass imaging may be possible
near the resolution limit of the core array of the telescope.Comment: version accepted for publication in MNRAS (reduced-resolution
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Structure and dynamics of topological defects in a glassy liquid on a negatively curved manifold
We study the low-temperature regime of an atomic liquid on the hyperbolic
plane by means of molecular dynamics simulation and we compare the results to a
continuum theory of defects in a negatively curved hexagonal background. In
agreement with the theory and previous results on positively curved (spherical)
surfaces, we find that the atomic configurations consist of isolated defect
structures, dubbed "grain boundary scars", that form around an irreducible
density of curvature-induced disclinations in an otherwise hexagonal
background. We investigate the structure and the dynamics of these grain
boundary scars
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