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Low-frequency GMRT observations of the magnetic Bp star HR Lup (HD 133880)
We present radio observations of the magnetic chemically peculiar Bp star HR
Lup (HD 133880) at 647 and 277 MHz with the GMRT. At both frequencies the
source is not detected but we are able to determine upper limits to the
emission. The 647 MHz limits are particularly useful, with a 5\sigma\ value of
0.45 mJy. Also, no large enhancements of the emission were seen. The
non-detections, along with previously published higher frequency detections,
provide evidence that an optically thick gyrosynchrotron model is the correct
mechanism for the radio emission of HR Lup.Comment: 7 pages, accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the Astronomical
Society of India, to appear in the June issu
The Effects of Auditor Tenure on Fraud and Its Detection
We examine the strategic effects of auditor tenure on the auditor's testing strategy and the manager's inclination to commit fraud. Most empirical studies conclude that longer tenure improves audit quality. Proponents of restricting tenure argue that longer tenure impairs auditor independence and a "fresh look" from a new auditor results in higher audit quality. Validating this argument requires testing whether the observed difference in audit quality between a continuing auditor and a change in auditors is less than the theoretically expected difference in audit quality without impairment. Our findings provide the guidance necessary for developing such tests. Our results show that audit risk (the probability that fraud exists and goes undetected) is lower in both periods for the continuing auditor than with a change in auditors. More importantly, we show that across both periods, expected undetected fraud is lower for the continuing auditor than with a change in auditors
Three-geometry and reformulation of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation
A reformulation of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation which highlights the role of
gauge-invariant three-geometry elements is presented. It is noted that the
classical super-Hamiltonian of four-dimensional gravity as simplified by
Ashtekar through the use of gauge potential and densitized triad variables can
furthermore be succinctly expressed as a vanishing Poisson bracket involving
three-geometry elements. This is discussed in the general setting of the
Barbero extension of the theory with arbitrary non-vanishing value of the
Immirzi parameter, and when a cosmological constant is also present. A proposed
quantum constraint of density weight two which is polynomial in the basic
conjugate variables is also demonstrated to correspond to a precise simple
ordering of the operators, and may thus help to resolve the factor ordering
ambiguity in the extrapolation from classical to quantum gravity. Alternative
expression of a density weight one quantum constraint which may be more useful
in the spin network context is also discussed, but this constraint is
non-polynomial and is not motivated by factor ordering. The article also
highlights the fact that while the volume operator has become a preeminient
object in the current manifestation of loop quantum gravity, the volume element
and the Chern-Simons functional can be of equal significance, and need not be
mutually exclusive. Both these fundamental objects appear explicitly in the
reformulation of the Wheeler-DeWitt constraint.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX fil
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Remote detection and location of explosive volcanism in Alaska with the EarthScope Transportable Array
MDCC: Multi-Data Center Consistency
Replicating data across multiple data centers not only allows moving the data
closer to the user and, thus, reduces latency for applications, but also
increases the availability in the event of a data center failure. Therefore, it
is not surprising that companies like Google, Yahoo, and Netflix already
replicate user data across geographically different regions.
However, replication across data centers is expensive. Inter-data center
network delays are in the hundreds of milliseconds and vary significantly.
Synchronous wide-area replication is therefore considered to be unfeasible with
strong consistency and current solutions either settle for asynchronous
replication which implies the risk of losing data in the event of failures,
restrict consistency to small partitions, or give up consistency entirely. With
MDCC (Multi-Data Center Consistency), we describe the first optimistic commit
protocol, that does not require a master or partitioning, and is strongly
consistent at a cost similar to eventually consistent protocols. MDCC can
commit transactions in a single round-trip across data centers in the normal
operational case. We further propose a new programming model which empowers the
application developer to handle longer and unpredictable latencies caused by
inter-data center communication. Our evaluation using the TPC-W benchmark with
MDCC deployed across 5 geographically diverse data centers shows that MDCC is
able to achieve throughput and latency similar to eventually consistent quorum
protocols and that MDCC is able to sustain a data center outage without a
significant impact on response times while guaranteeing strong consistency
Random projections and the optimization of an algorithm for phase retrieval
Iterative phase retrieval algorithms typically employ projections onto
constraint subspaces to recover the unknown phases in the Fourier transform of
an image, or, in the case of x-ray crystallography, the electron density of a
molecule. For a general class of algorithms, where the basic iteration is
specified by the difference map, solutions are associated with fixed points of
the map, the attractive character of which determines the effectiveness of the
algorithm. The behavior of the difference map near fixed points is controlled
by the relative orientation of the tangent spaces of the two constraint
subspaces employed by the map. Since the dimensionalities involved are always
large in practical applications, it is appropriate to use random matrix theory
ideas to analyze the average-case convergence at fixed points. Optimal values
of the gamma parameters of the difference map are found which differ somewhat
from the values previously obtained on the assumption of orthogonal tangent
spaces.Comment: 15 page
The entropic origin of disassortativity in complex networks
Why are most empirical networks, with the prominent exception of social ones,
generically degree-degree anticorrelated, i.e. disassortative? With a view to
answering this long-standing question, we define a general class of
degree-degree correlated networks and obtain the associated Shannon entropy as
a function of parameters. It turns out that the maximum entropy does not
typically correspond to uncorrelated networks, but to either assortative
(correlated) or disassortative (anticorrelated) ones. More specifically, for
highly heterogeneous (scale-free) networks, the maximum entropy principle
usually leads to disassortativity, providing a parsimonious explanation to the
question above. Furthermore, by comparing the correlations measured in some
real-world networks with those yielding maximum entropy for the same degree
sequence, we find a remarkable agreement in various cases. Our approach
provides a neutral model from which, in the absence of further knowledge
regarding network evolution, one can obtain the expected value of correlations.
In cases in which empirical observations deviate from the neutral predictions
-- as happens in social networks -- one can then infer that there are specific
correlating mechanisms at work.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010
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