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Clood CBR: towards microservices oriented case-based reasoning.
CBR applications have been deployed in a wide range of sectors, from pharmaceuticals; to defence and aerospace to IoT and transportation, to poetry and music generation; for example. However, a majority of these have been built using monolithic architectures which impose size and complexity constraints. As such these applications have a barrier to adopting new technologies and remain prohibitively expensive in both time and cost because changes in frameworks or languages affect the application directly. To address this challenge, we introduce a distributed and highly scalable generic CBR system, Clood, which is based on a microservices architecture. This splits the application into a set of smaller, interconnected services that scale to meet varying demands. Experimental results show that our Clood implementation retrieves cases at a fairly consistent rate as the casebase grows by several orders of magnitude and was over 3,700 times faster than a comparable monolithic CBR system when retrieving from half a million cases. Microservices are cloud-native architectures and with the rapid increase in cloud-computing adoption, it is timely for the CBR community to have access to such a framework
-Nucleus Scattering at Low and Intermediate Energies
We calculate -nucleus elastic differential, reaction and total cross
sections for different nuclei (C,Ca and Pb) at several
laboratory antikaon momenta, ranging from 127 MeV to 800 MeV. We use different
antikaon-nucleus optical potentials, some of them fitted to kaonic atom data,
and study the sensitivity of the cross sections to the considered
antikaon-nucleus dynamics.Comment: Only 4 pages, Latex, 3 Figures. This version is much shorter than the
previous one. Some details and references have been omitte
Cognitive Analytic Therapy in People with Learning Disability: An investigation into the common reciprocal roles found within this client group
Developments over the last twenty years have shown that, contrary to previous opinion, people with learning disabilities can benefit from psychotherapy (Sinason 1992; Kroese, Dagnan & Loumidia, 1997). Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) has been adapted for use with a learning disability population (Ryle 2002). CAT collaboratively examines the Reciprocal Roles (RRs) a client plays in relationships. These are impacted by clientsâ experiences of the world. The aim of this research is to identify which RRs may become apparent in working with people with learning disabilities. The therapy notes of participants (n=16) who had undergone CAT were examined and analysed using content analysis. Twenty-two different RRs were found. Four common Reciprocal Roles and two common idealised Reciprocal Roles were identified. Other observations about the data are presented. The limitations and clinical implications of the study are discussed
The nature of the Lambda(1405)
We present here some results supporting the nature of the
resonance as dynamically generated from the meson baryon interaction in coupled
channels and resulting from the superposition of two close-by poles. We find
support for this picture in the reaction,
which shows a different shape than the one obtained from the reaction. We also call the attention to the with in the region, which shows a narrow
peak in the calculations around 1420 MeV. We also report on recent calculations
of the radiative decay of the two states and on reactions to
obtain information on these decay modes. Finally, we present results for the
reaction recently measured at ANKE/COSY and compare
them with theoretical results.Comment: Talk given at the NSTAR2007 Workshop, Bonn September 200
The AMBRE Project: searching for the closest solar siblings
Finding solar siblings, that is, stars that formed in the same cluster as the
Sun, will yield information about the conditions at the Sun's birthplace. We
search for solar sibling candidates in AMBRE, the very large spectra database
of solar vicinity stars. Since the ages and chemical abundances of solar
siblings are very similar to those of the Sun, we carried out a chemistry- and
age-based search for solar sibling candidates. We used high-resolution spectra
to derive precise stellar parameters and chemical abundances of the stars. We
used these spectroscopic parameters together with Gaia DR2 astrometric data to
derive stellar isochronal ages. Gaia data were also used to study the
kinematics of the sibling candidates. From the about 17000 stars that are
characterized within the AMBRE project, we first selected 55 stars whose
metallicities are closest to the solar value (-0.1 < [Fe/H] < 0.1 dex). For
these stars we derived precise chemical abundances of several iron-peak, alpha-
and neutron-capture elements, based on which we selected 12 solar sibling
candidates with average abundances and metallicities between -0.03 to 0.03 dex.
Our further selection left us with 4 candidates with stellar ages that are
compatible with the solar age within observational uncertainties. For the 2 of
the hottest candidates, we derived the carbon isotopic ratios, which are
compatible with the solar value. HD186302 is the most precisely characterized
and probably the most probable candidate of our 4 best candidates. Very precise
chemical characterization and age estimation is necessary to identify solar
siblings. We propose that in addition to typical chemical tagging, the study of
isotopic ratios can give further important information about the relation of
sibling candidates with the Sun. Ideally, asteroseismic age determinations of
the candidates could solve the problem of imprecise isochronal ages.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&
Pionic atoms probing pi-NN resonances
The pion optical potential generated by the hypothetical pi-NN-coupled
NN-decoupled dibaryon resonance d'(2065) is calculated to the lowest order in
nuclear matter density. The contribution to the pion optical potential is found
to be within the empirical errors, so the d'(2065) existence currently does not
contradict to the observed properties of the pi-nucleus bound states. Future
progress in the pionic X-ray spectroscopy can reveal contributions of pi-NN
resonances to energy levels and widths of the pionic atoms.Comment: 3 pages REVTEX, 1 ps figur
Effects of pseudoscalar-baryon channels in the dynamically generated vector-baryon resonances
We study the interaction of vector mesons with the octet of stable baryons in
the framework of the local hidden gauge formalism using a coupled channels
unitary approach, including also the pseudoscalar-baryon channels which couple
to the same quantum numbers. We examine the scattering amplitudes and their
poles, which can be associated to known baryon resonances,
and determine the role of the pseudoscalar-baryon channels, changing the width
and eventually the mass of the resonances generated with only the basis of
vector-baryon states
Dynamically generated resonances from the vector octet-baryon decuplet interaction
We study the interaction of the octet of vector mesons with the decuplet of
baryons using Lagrangians of the hidden gauge theory for vector interactions.
The unitary amplitudes in coupled channels develop poles that can be associated
with some known baryonic resonances, while there are predictions for new ones
at the energy frontier of the experimental research. The work offers guidelines
on how to search for these resonances
Forecasting the northern African dust outbreak towards Europe in April 2011: a model intercomparison
In the framework of theWorld Meteorological Organisationâs
Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and
Assessment System, we evaluated the predictions of five
state-of-the-art dust forecast models during an intense Saharan
dust outbreak affecting western and northern Europe in
April 2011. We assessed the capacity of the models to predict
the evolution of the dust cloud with lead times of up
to 72 h using observations of aerosol optical depth (AOD)
from the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) and the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
and dust surface concentrations from a ground-based measurement
network. In addition, the predicted vertical dust
distribution was evaluated with vertical extinction profiles from the Cloud and Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization
(CALIOP). To assess the diversity in forecast capability
among the models, the analysis was extended to wind
field (both surface and profile), synoptic conditions, emissions
and deposition fluxes. Models predict the onset and
evolution of the AOD for all analysed lead times. On average,
differences among the models are larger than differences
among lead times for each individual model. In spite of large
differences in emission and deposition, the models present
comparable skill for AOD. In general, models are better in
predicting AOD than near-surface dust concentration over
the Iberian Peninsula. Models tend to underestimate the longrange
transport towards northern Europe. Our analysis suggests that this is partly due to difficulties in simulating the
vertical distribution dust and horizontal wind. Differences in
the size distribution and wet scavenging efficiency may also
account for model diversity in long-range transport.The authors acknowledge AERONET
(http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov) and thank the PIs of the AERONET stations used in this paper for maintaining the observation program
and the AERONET-Europe TNA (EU-ACTRIS grant no. 262254) for contributing to calibration efforts. We also acknowledge the MERRA, CALIPSO and MODIS mission scientists and
associated NASA personnel for the production of the data used in this research effort. MODIS data used in this paper were produced with the Giovanni online data system, developed and
maintained by the NASA GES DISC. S. Basart acknowledges the Catalan Government (BE-DGR-2012) as well as the CICYT project (CGL2010-19652 and CGL2013-46736) and Severo Ochoa (SEV-2011-00067) programme of the Spanish Government.
The NMMB/BSC-Dust and BSC-DREAM8b simulations were performed on the MareNostrum supercomputer hosted by BSC.
Stephanie Fiedler acknowledges the funding of the European Research Council through the starting grant of Peter Knippertz
(no. 257543). Nicolas Huneeus acknowledges FONDAP 15110009 and FONDECYT 1150873. The database on dust concentrations
at ground level was produced in the framework of the Grant Agreement LIFE10 ENV/IT/327 from the LIFE Programme of the European Commission. J. Pey has been partially funded by a Ramon y Cajal Grant (RYC-2013-14159) from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Carlos PĂŠrez GarcĂa-Pando
acknowledges the Department of Energy (DE-SC0006713) and the NASA Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program. The work
was partly funded within MACC-II by the European Commission under the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme, contract number 283576 and MACC-III by the European Communityâs Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement no. 633080.Postprint (published version
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